Virgin (c.291-304), martyred at an early age under Diocletian at Merida. At her death a white dove is said to have issued from her mouth and over her ashes, cast into a field, fell a pall of snow. She is very popular in Spain and is patroness of Merida and of Oviedo where her relics are preserved. Feast, December 10,.
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