Pudentiana

Pudentiana is a Roman virgin and martyr from the 1st century. Its Latin name means The small Modest, her Memorial Day in the Catholic Church was May 19 Recent research assumes that it 's more of a caused by linguistic shifts, legendary figure at the Sacred Pudentiana.

Origin of the name

The church of Santa Pudenziana on the Viminal in Rome is attested in documents from the late 4th century. Brick fragments prove that the ancient building in which the church was established, possession of Pudens was one whose existence is historically backed up and was actually a Christian. The common name at the time of the Church " Ecclesia Pudentiana " which can be read as a town or possession specification ( " church of Pudens " ), was reinterpreted in the early Middle Ages to the patronal feast of the holy Pudentiana.

Tradition

Over the life of the Pudentiana is virtually nothing survived. According to their acta, published by the Bollandists ( 8th century ) and the traditional lore she has with her father, the Roman Senator Pudens, and her sister Praxedis also a virgin, her brothers Timothy and Novatus and her mother Priscilla the Apostles Peter in Rome granted hospitality. They also took care of her sister around arms. During the persecution of Christians they brought the remains of 3,000 martyrs of the execution sites, collected sponges whose blood and buried it in her father's house. At the age of 17 years Pudentiana suffered martyrdom.

The representation in the apse of the church of Santa Pudentiana shows the Ecclesia ex Gentibus and Ecclesia ex circumcisione ( between which Christ stands ). These were further reinterpreted in late antiquity to Pudentiana and Praxedis. In the apse of the Basilica of Santa Prassede, which was built after the advent worship of two sisters, both women are each mapped between two other saints and flanking Christ.

1969 Pudentiana was together with her sister Praxedis by Pope Paul VI. removed from the general calendar of saints.