Jucunda from Nicomedia

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Jucunda of Nicomedia is a Catholic saint whose life little is known. In the third century, she is said to have died as a martyr during a Roman persecution of Christians in Nicomedia, today's İzmit in Turkey . The day of remembrance is July 27th.

In the Martyrologium Romanum Jucunda is named together with St. Julia as the companion of a martyr Felix of Nola, who is probably to be equated with the bishop Felix of Nola . Older sources put both in a connection with the martyr Januaryia of Nicomedia.

The asteroid (948) Jucunda , which was discovered on March 3, 1921 by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth , was named after her .

Individual evidence

  1. Eybach: Church now also consecrated. Südwest Presse , May 27, 2014.
  2. ^ De hellige Felix "av Nola" with Julia, Jucunda and Januaryia. Lexicon of persons of the Catholic Church in Norway (Norwegian).
  3. cf. De Sanctis Martyribus Felice Nolano, Julia, Jucunda Et Januaria Nicomediensibus. Ex Hieronymianis cum Romano collatis. [Commentarius]. Acta Sanctorum , entry July 27th. (Latin, digitized version in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints ).