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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Priscilla

A saint of the first centuries, commemorated in the calendar of Western saints.

Feast
January 16old style January 29
Era
1st century

Life

Saint Priscilla was a Christian woman of Rome, of the Glabrio family, in the first century. She was the wife of Manius Acilius Glabrio and the mother of the senator Pudens.

According to tradition she was the hostess of the holy Apostle Peter in Rome, around the year 42, and his base was in her villa near the catacombs that bear her name to this day, the Catacomb of Priscilla. No other certain details of her life survive.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 16 January (new style).

Commemorated the same day January 16