Restituta of Sora
Roman saint and martyr
Feast: 27 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Restituta is the chief patroness of Sora in Italy and is said to have been martyred there about 271. Butler calls her acts altogether fabulous. In the legend she is a Roman girl of high birth carried to Sora by an angel, who cures a widow's son of leprosy and converts many people.
The same legend says she was imprisoned, scourged and starved, freed of her chains by an angel, and finally beheaded with the priest Cyril and two others, their bodies thrown into the river Liri. Her relics were rediscovered in the seventeenth century. Butler thinks she is quite different from the African Restituta of 17 May.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The patroness of Sora, honoured as an early virgin martyr.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 27 May
- Wikidata Q3933521 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.