Pomponia

Holy Martyr Pomponia is one of the martyrs of Abitinae in proconsular Africa, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, in the year 304. A group of Christians from the small town of Abitinae gathered on Sunday for the service, although an imperial edict forbade Christian assemblies; they were seized, taken to Carthage and brought on 12 February before the proconsul Anullinus. There were forty-⁠nine in all. Their remembered reply was that they could not live without Sunday. They are commemorated on 12 February (new style). The sources at hand give no personal details about Pomponia; the account above is the usual one for the martyrs of Abitinae.