| ST. MARTINA, V. M. |
| Feast: January 30
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| She was
a noble Roman virgin, who glorified God, suffering many torments and a cruel
death for his faith, in the capital city of the world, in the third century.
There stood a chapel consecrated to her memory in Rome, which was frequented
with great devotion in the time of St. Gregory the Great. Her relics were
discovered in a vault, in the ruins of her old church and translated with great
pomp in the year 1634, under the pope Urban VIII, who built a new church in her
donor, and composed himself the hymns used in her office in the Roman Breviary.
The city of Rome ranks her among its particular patrons. She is mentioned in the
Martyrologies of Ado, Usuard, &c. The history of the discovery of her relics
was published by Honoratus of Viterbo, an Oratorian. See Bollandus.
(Taken from Vol. I of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company) |
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