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One of a group of about 80 Christians martyred together during the persecutions Diocletian. One of the Martyrs of Concordia.

beheaded on 17 February 304 at Porto Gruaro on the banks of the Lemene River outside Iulia Concordia (modern Concodia Saggitaria), Italy
the bodies were collected and given proper burial by local people
a chapel was built on the site of the executions; it was later incorporated in the construction of the Cathedral of Saint Stephen the Proto-Martyr
the bones were later collected and placed in a communal urn which was enshrined in the chapel within the cathedral
the chapel was declared a diocesan sanctuary by Bishop Giuseppe Pellegrini on 17 February 2018