Minia

Holy Martyr Minia of Brión is a martyr honored in the sanctuary of that name at Pedrouzos, in Brión, La Coruña, in Galicia. There are no biographical data about her; for that reason a hagiography without historical basis was composed. In this invented account she was the daughter of Caurius and Feliciana, of a high Roman family, born around 347, a defender of Christianity, and died beheaded in 362, in the time of Julian the Apostate, in the persecution of the prefect Faustus, and was buried in the catacombs of Saint Agnes. The date of death is arbitrary, since it is not on the gravestone, and in 362 there was no official persecution; her martyrdom more likely belongs to the beginning of the fourth century, the time of Diocletian.

Her body was found in the catacombs of Saint Agnes in 1781 and taken out in 1783. It passed through a long series of gifts to a rich merchant of Cádiz. The name has remained known chiefly because of the popularity of the sanctuary of Brión. Her commemoration is on 26 or 27 September. She is venerated in the Catholic Church.