Secunda of Thuburbo
virgin and martyr at Thuburbo
Feast: 30 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Thuburbo in present-day Tunisia, Saints Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda, virgins and martyrs, of whom the first two, during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, fearlessly refused the Caesar’s order to sacrifice to the idols and, by sentence of the proconsul Anulinus, were first exposed to the wild beasts together with little Secunda and then had their throats cut 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 30 July as a young girl exposed to the wild beasts at Thuburbo in present-day Tunisia with Saints Maxima and Donatilla and then killed with the sword.
- Roman Martyrology, 30 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R9ef76f34 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.