Vissia

Holy Martyr Vissia was a Roman saint of Fermo in Italy, co-⁠patron of the city together with Saint Sophia and Saint Savinus; she is said to have died around the year 250.

Little is known of her life. According to local accounts, she was beheaded, perhaps around the year 250, in the time of Decius, on a hill near the centre of Fermo, which has since been called Colle Vissiano (Montagnola in the speech of the locals). In the cathedral of Fermo a plaque is to be seen describing the holy virgin who ennobles her native city by her martyrdom. Caesar Baronius entered her in the Roman Martyrology, together with Saint Sophia of Fermo, on 12 April. Local texts link her with the martyr Emidius, protector of Ascoli. Her relics are kept in several churches of Fermo.

She is honoured in the Catholic Church as a saint of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.