Agrippina of Mineo

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Saint Agrippina of Mineo

Died	262 AD
Feast	June 23 (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Attributes	palm of martyrdom
Patronage	Mineo; invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections
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Saint Agrippina (d. 262 AD) was venerated as a virgin martyr in the Catholic Church. Nothing is known of her true identity, and there is no evidence of any worship of an early date.

Her legend states that she was a blonde princess born of a noble Roman family, and that she was martyred either during the reign of Valerian or of Diocletian. She was either beheaded or scourged.

Her body was said to have been taken to Mineo, Sicily, by three devout Christian women named Bassa, Paula, and Agathonice (Agatonica). Her tomb became a popular pilgrimage destination, and she was invoked as a patron saint against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections.

Agrippina was venerated in Greece, as it was claimed that her relics were translated from Sicily to Constantinople.

No longer on the Roman Catholic Calendar, her feast day is celebrated in Eastern Orthodoxy on June 23.