Soteris

Soteris was a Roman martyr-saint, who was put to death for her faith in the early 4th century.[1]

She was supposedly a woman of very great beauty who dressed modestly and gave her virginity to Christ.[1] She was arrested on account of her faith, and underwent torture, before being finally beheaded, perhaps around 304 AD.[2][3][4]

Ambrose of Milan claimed to descend from her family and wrote about her.[2] Her feast day is on February 11.

Her remains were buried in a cemetery created by Pope Callixtus I in the 3rd century along the Appian way as it approached Rome, which also contained the remains of St Cecilia and many other martyrs.[5] In the same region was dedicated a basilica to Saint Soteris.[6]

References
  1. Butler, Alban (1866). The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J. Duffy. p. 103–104.
  2. St. Soteris retrieved August 19th 2018
  3. St. Soteris, virgin and martyrR retrieved August 19th 2018
  4. Saint Soteris retrieved August 19th 2018
  5. Andrew Ekonomou. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes. Lexington books, 2007
  6. Tuker, Mildred Anna Rosalie; Malleson, Hope (1900). The Christian monuments of Rome. A. and C. Black. p. 345.
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