Regina (martyr)

Saint Regina
Statue of St. Regina at church dedicated to her at Drensteinfurt.
BornAutun, France
DiedAlesia, France
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
FeastSeptember 7th
Attributesdepicted as experiencing the torments of martyrdom, or as receiving spiritual consolation in prison by a vision of a dove on a luminous cross.
Patronageagainst poverty, impoverishment, shepherdesses, torture victims[1]

Saint Regina (Regnia, French: Sainte Reine) (3rd century) was a virgin martyr and saint of the pre-schism Christian Church. Regina was born in Autun, France, to a pagan named Clement. Her mother died at her birth and her father placed her with a Christian nurse who baptized her. Regina helped out by tending the sheep.[2] She communed with God in prayer and meditated on the lives of the saints. At the age of fifteen, she was betrothed to the proconsul Olybrius, but refused to renounce her faith to marry him, for which she was tortured and was beheaded at Alesia in the diocese of Autun,[3] called Alise-Sainte-Reine after her.

Her martyrdom is considered to have occurred either during the persecution of Decius, in 251, or under Maximian in 286.[3]

  1. ^ Archdiocese of Regina – Ask a Sister Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference masters was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Butler Alban. "St. Regina, or Reine, Virgin and Martyr", The Lives of the Saints. 1866