Guddena
martyr at Carthage
Feast: 27 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, Saint Guddena, martyr, who, by order of the proconsul Rufinus, was tortured four separate times on the rack and with the torment of the iron claws, was then thrown for a long time into a squalid prison and at last run through with the sword.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 27 June as a martyr at Carthage who was tortured four times and at last put to the sword.
- Roman Martyrology, 27 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rf9f8658e — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.