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her sons, so that she might be able to encourage them during their torture and death in order that they would not deny Christ. With joy, she accompanied her sons one by one until she had witnessed the death of all seven. We are not entirely sure as to how each of them died, but it is said that
Januarius, the eldest, was
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that rose above her tomb. Her body then rested in the catacomb of
Maximus on the Via Salaria; in that cemetery all Roman itineraries, or guides to the burial-places of martyrs, locate her burial-place, specifying that her tomb was in a church above this catacomb. The
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Felicitas were really the mother of the seven martyrs honoured on 10 July, it is strange that her name does not appear in the well-known fourth-century Roman calendar.
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of Rome. Taking
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is very similar and their acts may have been confused. She was a patron saint of healing. They may even be the same person. This
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on a 23 November. However, a legend presents her as the mother of the seven martyrs whose feast is celebrated on 10 July. The
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to death; Felix and Philip were beaten with clubs until they expired; Silvanus was thrown headlong down a precipice; and the three youngest, Alexander, Vitalis and
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