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Modesta of Nicomedia
martyr at Nicomedia
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 13 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Nicomedia in Bithynia, in present-day Turkey, the holy martyrs Macedonius, priest, Patricia, his wife, and Modesta, his daughter.
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 13 March as a martyr at Nicomedia with her father Macedonius, a priest, and her mother Patricia.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 13 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R6be4ad1f — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.