Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/154

Praxedis

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
Early Christian
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Virgin of Rome (1st--2nd cent.), buried in the ecmetary of Priscilla on the Salarian Way. The church of S. Prassede was built on the site of her house. Cult suppressed in 20th cent. Commemorated in the Aberdeen Breviary. ODS, 443.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
non-matyr Virgin 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
7 21 yes St Praxedis, Virgin non-Martyr None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations