Saint Candida
Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
Feast: 6 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Rome, St. Artemius, with his wife Candida and his daughter Paulina. Artemius, at the preaching and miracles of St. Peter the Exorcist, believed in Christ, and was baptized with all his household by St. Marcellinus, priest. At the command of the governor Serenus, he was flogged with leaden-tipped whips and then slain by the sword. His wife and daughter were driven into a crypt which was then filled with stones and rubble.
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 Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers her on 6 June.
Connected on this site
- Saint Paulina Saint Child
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 6 June
- Wikidata Q4212312 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.