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Digna and Emerita

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Died
  
259 AD

Name
  
Digna Emerita

Feast
  
September 22

Venerated in
  
Catholic Church


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Major shrine
  
San Marcello al Corso

Saints Digna and Emerita (died 259 AD) are venerated as saints by the Catholic Church. They were martyred at Rome.

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Their feast day is celebrated on September 22.

Their relics are said to lie at the church of San Marcello al Corso, in Rome, although it is recorded that on April 5, 838, a monk named Felix appeared at Fulda with the remains of Saints Cornelius, Callistus, Agapitus, Georgius, Vincentius, Maximus, Cecilia, Eugenia, Digna, Emerita, and Columbana.

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