Name
Emerentiana, virgin and martyr of Rome
Saint ID
S00495
Reported Death Not Before
200
Reported Death Not After
312
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Virgins
| ID | Title | E00676 | The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Nomentana, north-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649. | E02475 | The Latin Martyrdom of *Agnes (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00097) tells how Agnes, a young woman of noble birth, embraced chastity, was exposed in a brothel, and eventually martyred; she is buried on the via Nomentana; near her grave *Emerentiana (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00496) was also martyred; Constantia, daughter of the emperor Constantine, was cured there, leading to the building of a basilica for Agnes and a mausoleum for Constantia. Written presumably in Rome, certainly before the late 7th c. | E04620 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 23 January. | E04958 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 16 September. | E05437 | Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 23 January at Rome of *Emerentiana (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00495), killed at the tomb of her foster sister *Agnes (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00097). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731. | E06046 | Mosaics in the nave of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (northern Italy) depicting twenty-two female saints, preceded by the three Magi, processing towards the Virgin and Child, and twenty-six male saints, probably originally preceded by *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), processing towards Christ; created under Bishop Agnellus, 557/564. | E06997 | The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Nomentana, north-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. | E07467 | Very fragmentary painted Latin inscription, possibly referring to *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), and *Emerentiana (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00495). Found in the Coemeterium Maius / Catacombe di Sant'Emerenziana on the via Nomentana, Rome. Probably late 4th - early 5th c. [provisional entry] | E07888 | The Itinerarium Malmesburiense, a guide to saints' graves around and within Rome, lists those outside porta Nomentana, north-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. |
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