Pompeia

Saint Pompeia, Martyr, is counted among the martyrs of Lyon, put to death for Christ in the persecution of the year 177, in the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Her name stands in the list of the forty-⁠eight martyrs of Lyon commemorated on 2 June, headed by Bishop Pothinus and the slave Blandina; some died in prison, others in the arena, killed by beasts or by the sword, before the crowd.Two women of this name appear among the forty-⁠eight. The sources consulted preserve no other details about her. She is a saint of the undivided Church.