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St. Eugenia of Rome
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St. Eugenia of Rome
Virgin and Martyr
Eugenia is remembered as a virgin and martyr at Rome. Butler’s brief notice cites Avitus and expressly declines to rely on the later accounts of her suffering.
The reading
ⓘ Butler source
Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XII (December), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; December 25, “St Eugenia, Virgin and Martyr,” p. 395.
Eugenia is remembered as a virgin and martyr who suffered at Rome. Butler places her death under Valerian at about the year 257, without giving a detailed contemporary account of the proceedings.
His short notice cites St. Avitus and also points to the remembrance of Eugenia in the lives of Protus and Hyacinthus. These are the witnesses named in the passage for the older memory of the martyr.
Butler expressly says that no authentic acts of her suffering survive and rejects the later versions he names. This reading therefore keeps the notice brief. It does not add the elaborate disguise, trial or family episodes found in later narratives.
Historical note
An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 source. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.
The approximate date follows Butler’s brief notice. Its express warning about unauthentic later acts is retained; the reading does not reconstruct a detailed martyrdom from those accounts.
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