Rhodana

Saint Rhodana, Martyr, is remembered at Lyon (Lugdunum), in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis, in the second century, and her name is in the list of the martyrs of Lyon commemorated on 2 June. According to the legend, Rhodana opened her house for the care of the sick and was beheaded, in the time of the emperor Antoninus Pius or of Septimius Severus, depending on the account. In the Middle Ages her name appears as the origin of the name of the palace of Roanne, later the courthouse of Lyon; there is, however, no evidence that the palace had a Roman origin, only a story from the Middle Ages.