Prosdoce
virgin and martyr at Antioch
Feast: 14 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Antioch in Syria, in present-day Turkey, the holy martyrs Bernice and Prosdoce, virgins, and Domnina, their mother, who, in a time of persecution, while seeking safety in flight to escape the designs of those who were trying to lay snares for their purity, found martyrdom in the waters of a river.
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 14 April as a virgin of Antioch who, fleeing with her sister and her mother from those who threatened her purity, died a martyr in the waters of a river.
- Roman Martyrology, 14 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rd3e536e2 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.