Petronilla
Life and witness
At Rome, of St. Petronilla, virgin, daughter to St. Peter the Apostle, who contemning the marriage of Flaccus, a nobleman, taking three days to deliberate, in the meanwhile attending to prayer and fasting, the third day, after she had received the holy Sacrament of Christ's body, gave up the ghost.
Biographical overview
Saint Petronilla (sometimes called Aurelia Petronilla) is an early Christian saint. She is venerated as a Virgin in the Catholic Church. Petronilla died in Rome at the end of the 1st century, or possibly in the 3rd century.
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Romae sanctae Petronillae Virginis, filiae beati Petri Apostoli, quae, conjugium nobilis viri Flacci spernens, et, acceptis triduanis ad deliberandum indiiciis, interim jejuniis et orationibus vacans, tertia die, mox ut Christi Sacramentum accepit, emisit spiritum.