Pudentiana
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Major shrine | Santa Pudenziana |
Feast | 19 May |
Attributes | Oil lamp, laurel wreath (for Christ) |
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Pudentiana is a virgin and martyr of the 2nd century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. She is sometimes locally known as "Potentiana" and is often coupled with her sister, Praxedes the martyr.
Legend
According to her acta and the Martyrology of Reichenau,[2] she was a Roman virgin of the early church, daughter of Saint Pudens, friend of the Apostles, and sister of Praxedes.
Praxedes and Pudentiana, together with Pope Pius I, built a baptistry in the church inside their father's house, and started to baptize pagans. Pudentiana died at the age of 16, possibly a martyr, and is buried next to her father Pudens, in the Priscilla catacombs on the via Salaria.
While there is evidence for the life of Pudens, there is no direct evidence for either Pudentiana or Praxedes. It is possible that the early Church's Ecclesia Pudentiana (
Veneration
Santa Pudenziana, a basilica in Rome, is named for her, and her commemoration in the General Roman Calendar fell on 19 May until its 1969 revision.[3] Pudentiana is still mentioned on 19 May in the Roman Martyrology.[4]
The Spanish
By the
Homonymous town in Numidia
The name
See also
References
- ^ Ἡ Ἁγία Πουδενδιάνα ἡ Μάρτυς [Saint Pudendiana the Martyr]. synaxarion.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ "Saint Pudentia". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
- ^ https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_p-vi_motu-proprio_19690214_mysterii-paschalis.html
- ^ https://www.ecatholic2000.com/roman-martyrology/05-may.shtml
- ^ "The Church before it became a Cathedral : 1571". Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "III. Insularum Philippinarum Beatissima Virgo Maria Titulo Immaculata Conceptio Primaria Universalisque Patrona et Sanctae Virgines Pudentiana ac Rosa Limana Patronae Secundarias Declarantur" [III. The Most Blessed Virgin Mary of the Philippine Islands with the title Immaculate Conception is declared the Primary and Universal Patroness and the Holy Virgins of Pudentiana and Rosa Limana are declared Secondary Patronesses]. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1942 [Acts of the Apostolic See] (PDF) (in Latin). pp. 336–337.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 956
- ^ "Pudentiana". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Cheney, David M. 25 January 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
External links
- Media related to Pudentiana at Wikimedia Commons
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- St. Pudentiana
- Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square