Olivia de Palermo
5th‑century Sicilian teenage virgin and martyr, Christian saint, venerated in Palermo and Tunis
Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian towns of Monte San Giuliano, Termini Imerese, Alcamo, Pettineo and Cefalù.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- santiebeati.it — Sant' Oliva di Palermo — santiebeati index entry 96417: ‘Sant’ Oliva di Palermo | Vergine e martire | X sec. | festa 10 giugno’. Butler's Lives keeps her on the same day: ‘BD OLIVE OF PALERMO, Virgin and Martyr’ (10 June). She is a patroness of
- Wikidata Q446783 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Olivia of Palermo (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.