Domnina
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Domnina is the name of three early Christian martyrs and one early fifth century saint. The first Saint Domnina was martyred with other virgin companions in the year 69 A.D. in Termi, Umbria, Italy, perhaps at the same time that a Saint Valentine was martyred. Her feast day is April 14. The second Saint Domnina was martyred in 303 A.D. She was killed in the prison of Anazarbus, under the Roman prefect Lysias. Her feast day is October 12. The third Saint Domnina was a wealthy matron who died in the year 310 A.D. in Syria with her two daughters, Saints Bernice and Prosdoce. Fearing that Roman soldiers who had taken them captive would rape and torture them, she told the soldiers she and her daughters required a brief rest stop on their journey to Antioch. Then, when they were in the middle of the road, she cast herself into the nearby river and drowned herself. Her teenage daughters did the same at her urging. She is a favorite subject of Greek hagiographers. Her feast day is October 10.[1] [2]
The fourth Saint Domnina was a sworn virgin who lived in a shed, which she left only to attend Mass. She prayed and took care of travellers, but always kept her face veiled and would not look at the faces of others. She died in 460 A.D.[3]
