Honorata de Pavia
Feast: 11 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Honorata of Pavia (died 11 January 500 in Pavia), sister of Bishop Epiphanius (+496), was a consecrated virgin and Catholic saint. Details of her life come from Ennodius's biography of her brother. The youngest of his four pious sisters—Speciosa, Luminosa, Liberata, and Honorata—all later venerated as virgins, though some scholars count only Honorata as his blood sibling. Well-educated and dedicated to God by Epiphanius, she was captured during Odoacer's 476 sack of Pavia but ransomed by her brother along with other prisoners. She lived in prayer and charity, dying peacefully in sanctity and buried beside Epiphanius in St. Vincent's Church. In art, she appears in a tunic holding a book.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Santi e Beati — Sant'Onorata di Pavia, vergine, festa 11 gennaio — Consecrated virgin of Pavia, sister of St Epiphanius bishop of Pavia, carried off in Odoacer's sack of 476 and ransomed by her brother; died 11 January 500 and kept on that day — matching the entry.
- Wikidata Q11710058 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Honorata of Pavia (CC BY-SA)
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