Martyr
Sedopha of Tomis
A woman martyr of Tomis, honoured among the early saints of Dobruja.
Life
Holy Martyr Sedopha of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 5 July (new style), together with Marinus and Theodotus, as a martyr of Tomis, a city of Scythia (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The text of the martyrology gives no other details about her.
She is honoured among the saints of the first Christian centuries of Dobruja and as a saint of the undivided Church. Among the martyrs of Tomis she is one of the few women whose name has been preserved.
Commemorated the same day July 5
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