Martyr Martyr Priscilla (Prisca) of Asia

CRITICAL IDENTIFICATION NOTE: the previous card mistakenly conflated this New Testament Priscilla with a separate, Western (non-Orthodox) tradition about a Roman noblewoman of the era of Emperor Domitian ("c. 98 AD," the Catacombs of Priscilla on the Via Salaria) — this Western figure is not identical to the Orthodox "Priscilla of Asia" and belongs to a different, non-Orthodox calendar tradition; the unsupported "c. 98 AD" detail has been removed.

IMAGES: 2 previous images (generic June-month menaion sheets, matching neither the February 13 date nor this saint individually) have been removed as low-value. In their place, 3 images previously mistakenly attached to the "prisca_thecla_junia" card have been added — an icon and miniatures inscribed "SANCTUS AQUILAE" and "SANCTA PRISCILLAE," exactly matching the couple commemorated here.

Martyr Priscilla (Prisca) was the wife of Apostle Aquila of the Seventy, a native of Pontus. Together with her husband she was expelled from Rome by an edict of Emperor Claudius (49 AD) and settled in Corinth, where the couple worked as tentmakers. There Priscilla and Aquila met the Apostle Paul, received baptism from him, and became his faithful disciples and co-workers in apostolic labor — Paul repeatedly calls them his "fellow workers in Christ Jesus" in his epistles (Romans 16:3–4).

Priscilla shared with her husband all the burdens of missionary service, together founding and strengthening Christian communities in various cities — Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome. By church tradition, Saints Aquila and Priscilla suffered martyrdom at the hands of pagans, dying together for their confession of faith in Christ. The Church commemorates them jointly on February 13/26.