Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Dafrosa

Martyred mother of St. Bibiana, sometimes called Aifrosa. The Acts of Bibiana provide untrustworthy documentation of this martyr­dom which supposedly took place in the reign of Julian the Apostate.

This article is about the fourth-century saint. For the third-century saint, patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, see Saint Vibiana.

Saint Bibiana (Bibiane, Viviana, or Vivian) is a Roman Virgin and Martyr. The earliest mention in an authentic historical authority occurs in the “Liber Pontificalis,”, where the biography of Pope Simplicius (468–483) states that this pope “consecrated a basilica of the holy martyr Bibiana, which contained her body, near the ‘palatium Licinianum’ ” (ed. Duchesne, I, 249). The Basilica of Santa Bibiana still exists.

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