{{Short description|4th century Christian martyr and saint}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint |name= Felicula |birth_date= |death_date= |feast_day= 13 June |venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, True Orthodox Church |image=File:Saint Felicula tied to a pole and burnt, and later being Wellcome V0031952.jpg |imagesize=150px |caption= |birth_place= |death_place= |titles= Martyr |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Felicula''' was a probably fourth-century Roman martyr whose relics Pope Gregory I gave to Bishop John of Ravenna in about 592. She is mentioned in the ''Roman Martyrology'' on 13 June: "On the seventh milestone from the city of Rome on the Via Ardeatina, Saint Felicula, martyr".<ref>''Martyrologium Romanum'' (Typis Vaticanis, 2004), p. 336</ref><ref>[http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/57010 Santi e beati Santa Felicola di Roma]</ref>
The heavily romanticized ''Acts of Saints Nereus and Achilleus'' make of Felicula one of the first virgin martyrs and assign her death to about 90 AD. In this legend she was the foster sister of Saint Petronilla and was arrested after Petronilla refused to marry a Roman official. After Petronilla's death, Felicula had no food and water in prison. She was thrown into a sewer, where she eventually died. Saint Nicomedes recovered her body.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LqZOAQAAMAAJ&q=felicula&pg=PA12 ''Acts of Saints Nereus and Achilleus'' (Bollandists), chapter V]</ref><ref>[http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3675 St. Felicula information on Catholic Online]</ref>
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