Matronilla

Saint Matronilla was a Christian of Rome from the beginning of the fourth century. Little or nothing is known about her, and the Church itself, as in other cases, is cautious in acknowledging her sanctity in the absence of secure historical data. The little information comes from a slab from the catacombs where her body was found, set on the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows in the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta at Mogliano Veneto. The inscription reads: "To Matronilla, who lived thirty years doing good, [rest] in peace." The letters are typical of the fourth century, so it is supposed that she died in the great persecution of Diocletian, but this remains a supposition.

Her body was found in the catacombs of Saints Cyriacus and Lawrence in Rome toward the end of the seventeenth century and was given in 1783 by Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico to his friend Ignazio Testori. He moved it to the chapel of his villa at Mogliano Veneto, and in 1786 the remains were taken to the parish church, where they rest today. She is venerated in the Catholic Church.