SAINT WISDOM
SAINT WISDOM
Saint Wisdom, a Roman widow, and her three daughters are said to have suffered for the Faith under the Emperor Hadrian.
Saint Faith, age 12, was scourged, thrown into boiling pitch, taken out alive, and beheaded. Saint
Hope, age 10, and Saint Charity, age 9, being unhurt in a furnace, were also beheaded. Their mother, Saint Wisdom, suffered while praying over the bodies of her children.
There is reference to two groups. A family martyred under Hadrian and buried on the Aurelian Way. Their names were Greek, Sophia, Pistis, Elpis and Agape. Their tomb is under the church of Saint Pancras. Another group of martyrs of an unknown date, Sapientia, Fides. Spes and Caritas, buried in the cemetery of Saint Callistus on the Appian Way.
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