Patron saint sophia biography

Roman martyr

Saint Sophia of Rome is venerated as a Christian martyr. She is identified in hagiographical tradition with the figure of Sophia of Milan, the mother of Saints Faith, Hope and Charity, whose veneration is attested for the sixth century.

However, there are conflicting hagiographical traditions; one tradition^[1] makes Sophia herself a martyr under the Diocletian Persecution (/4). This conflicts with the much more widespread hagiographical tradition (BHL , also extant in Greek, Armenian and Georgian versions) placing Sophia, the mother of Faith, Hope, and Charity, in the time of Hadrian (second century) and reporting her dying not as a martyr but mourning for her martyred daughters.^[2] Her relics are said to have been translated to the convent at Eschau, Alsace in ,^[3] and her cult spread to Germany from there.

Acta Sanctorum reports that her feast day of 15 May is attested in German, Belgian, and English breviaries of