Virginia

Holy Martyr Virginia was a young Christian of Rome, about twelve years old, who suffered in the 2nd century, in the time of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180). Her body was found in the catacombs of Priscilla.

The relics reached Barbaiana, today in the province of Milan, in August 1662. Their custody was definitively entrusted to the parish of San Bernardo by a bull of Pope Alexander VII of 14 March 1665, and Pope Leo XIII, by a bull of 19 June 1893, granted a plenary indulgence to the faithful who make a pilgrimage on the saint's feast. By custom this is kept on the third Sunday of September. The body is now enclosed in a wax statue kept in a crystal and silver case, displayed to the faithful and carried in procession on the feast day. She is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.