July 6th Saint Dominica of Campania

[Denise]

Saint Dominica of Campania was born in c 287 in Tropea, Calabria, Italy and died in the first attempt by being thrown to wild animals who refused to harm her. Thereafter, she was beheaded on 6 July 303, making her between 15 and 16 years old.

The Roman Martyrology states of her today: “In Campania, St Dominica, Virgin and Martyr, in the time of the Emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts but being uninjured by them. she was beheaded and departed for Heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria.”

Almost nothing more is known of Dominica except that she was the daughter of Christian parents, Doroteo and Arsenia.