Santa Generosa
Feast: 17 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, the anniversary of the death of the holy Scillitan martyrs, Speratus, Nartzalus, Cittinus, Veturius, Felix, Aquilinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestia, Donata and Secunda, who by order of the proconsul Saturninus were thrown into prison after a first confession of faith in Christ; brought in fetters the following day, they firmly confessed that they were Christians and, refusing to honour the emperor as a god, were condemned to death: all kneeling at the place of execution, they were beheaded with a sword while giving thanks to God.
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 17 July among the Scillitan martyrs, beheaded at Carthage for refusing to honour the emperor as a god.
- Roman Martyrology, 17 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q8963753 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.