# Felicula

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{{Short description|4th century Christian martyr and saint}}
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'''Felicula''' was a probably fourth-century Roman martyr whose relics [Pope Gregory I](/source/Pope_Gregory_I) gave to Bishop John of [Ravenna](/source/Ravenna) in about 592. She is mentioned in the ''[Roman Martyrology](/source/Roman_Martyrology)'' on 13 June: "On the seventh milestone from the city of Rome on the [Via Ardeatina](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/prison). She was thrown into a [sewer](/source/sanitary_sewer), where she eventually died. [Saint Nicomedes](/source/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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