Symphorosa
Symphorosa († 120 in Tibur ) was an early Christian martyr and saint.
The legend of Saint Symphorosa was written around the 8th century in a Passio. This connects her ordeal with her seven children and laid it in the time of Emperor Hadrian. This was required of her to sacrifice at the dedication of his palace in Tibur the Roman gods, after refusing to Symphorosa. According to tradition they have there refer to her husband Getulius who had martyred for his Christian faith before her and she wanted to follow; other traditions date the martyrdom of Getulius However, a few years after the Symphorosa. The Emperor had finally ordered to bind Symphorosa to a heavy stone and sink in the Tiber. She was then buried on the Via Tiburtina near the 9 Milestones in front of the gates of Rome. Their seven sons were then each subjected to a special martyrdom: Crescens, the oldest, had been pierced the neck, Julianus had been stabbed Nemesius was killed with a sword thrust into the heart, Primitivus had received a deadly sting in the umbilicus, was Justinus been killed with a sword thrust in the back, Stacteus you have opened the pages, and Eugenius had been split in two by oden down. It is unclear, however, whether the martyrdom of seven Christians who had originally nothing to do with Symphorosa, has not been subsequently reinterpreted so that it was that of their children. The legend may have been modeled on the Passio Felicitatis that describes a very similar process. In the 17th century Bosio discovered on 9 milestone of the Via Tiburtina remains of a small basilica, which is likely to be the original place of worship Symphorosa. Their relics are now venerated in the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, where Pope Stephen II to have spent their bones in the year 752. The local sarcophagus, which was found in 1610, bears the inscription Hic requiescunt corpora SS Martyrum Simforosae, viri sui Zotici ( Getulii ) Filiorum et ejus a Stephano Papa Translata.
Symphorosa is venerated as a saint. Your feast day is July 18.