Biography of saint priscilla

Prisca, Saint, a martyr of the Roman Church, whose dates are unknown. The name Prisca or Priscilla is often mentioned by early authorities of the history of the Church in Rome.

The wife of Aquila, the pupil of St. Paul, bore this name. The grave of a martyr Prisca was venerated in the Roman Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria.

Biography of saint priscilla in the bible

The place of interment is explicitly mentioned in all the seventh-century itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs (De Rossi, “Roma sotterranea”, I, 176, 177). The epitaph of a Roman Christian named Priscilla was found in the “larger Catacomb”, the Caemeterium maius, on the Via Nomentana, not far from the Catacomb of St.

Agnes [De Rossi, Bull. di arch. crist.

Biography of saint priscilla

(1888-1889), 130, note 5]. There still exists on the Aventine a church of St. Prisca. It stands on the site of a very early title church, the Titulus Priscae, mentioned in the fifth century and built probably in the fourth. In the eighteenth century ther