Martyr
Martyr Priscilla of Rome
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Also known as: Мц. Прискилла, Присцилла Римская
A Christian woman of Rome in the early 4th century on whose estate Pope Marcellus buried the bodies of martyrs; for this she and Lucina were expelled from Rome and their property was plundered.
Martyr Priscilla was a Christian woman of Rome in the early 4th century. The Russian Church commemorates her on 7/20 June together with Hieromartyr Marcellus, Pope of Rome, the deacons Sisinius and Cyriacus, the martyrs Smaragdus, Largus and others, and the martyrs Lucina and Artemia.
According to the Roman account of Pope Marcellus, retold by St Demetrius of Rostov, Christian soldiers were condemned to forced labour and many of them died under torture. Pope Marcellus, secretly freed by the Roman clergy, buried the bodies of Cyriacus, Smaragdus and Largus on the estate of two Christian women, Priscilla and Lucina, near Rome. When Emperor Maxentius learned of this, Marcellus was condemned to tend cattle and soon died, while Priscilla and Lucina were driven out of Rome in disgrace and their estates were plundered.
The Orthodox Encyclopedia notes that this account dates from the 5th–6th centuries and contains many legendary details. Priscilla has no separate feast; she is venerated within this group of Roman martyrs.