Potamiaena

Holy Martyr Potamiaena was a Christian of Alexandria, put to death about the year 205, in the persecution of Christians in the time of Emperor Septimius Severus. She is commemorated on 28 June (new style).

The historian Eusebius of Caesarea writes of her: a beautiful young woman who kept her purity in spite of the threats of the judge Aquila. After tortures, she was condemned to be lowered into boiling pitch. The soldier Basilides, appointed to guard her, defended her from the mockery of the crowd. Later Basilides confessed that Potamiaena had appeared to him in a dream and crowned him, and he too received death for Christ.