Patricia

Holy Martyr Patricia suffered at Nicomedia, around the turn from the second to the third century.

The only source about her is the Syriac Breviary. According to it, she was the wife of the priest Macedonius and the mother of a daughter, Modesta. She died a martyr for the faith together with her husband, their daughter and twenty other persons; the closer circumstances are not known. Only the day of her martyric death has been kept, 13 March, which is also her day of commemoration, in the Western calendar. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.