Saint Prisca
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Saint Prisca (feast day: January 18) was a Roman young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith; she is considered a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches. Prisca was of a noble family and at thirteen years of age was accused of Christianity before Emperor Claudius. By his command she was taken to the temple of Apollo to sacrifice there, and when she refused, was buffeted and sent to prison. She was taken out from thence again, but as she still held stedfastly to the faith, they flogged her, poured boiling tallow upon her, and sent her back a second time. She was at last thrown to a lion in the amphitheater, but it quietly lay down at her feet. She was starved for three days in a slaves' prison house, and then tortured upon the rack. Pieces of flesh were next torn from her body with iron hooks, and she was thrown on a burning pile. She marvellously still remained alive, and was accordingly beheaded outside the city. Thus she added the palm of martyrdom to the crown of virginity, in the late 1st century. The Christians buried her body at the tenth milestone on the road from Rome to Ostia.
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