Saints of Amelia

Given its proximity to Rome and its position on Via Amerina, Amelia was probably a target of the early Christian evangelists.  The city’s patron saints:

• St Firmina and her erstwhile persecutor, St Olympiades; and

• St Secundus;

were all said to have been martyred in the persecutions of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303 AD.

The first Bishop of Amelia to be recorded was Ondulfo, in 344 AD, and the first to be regard as a saint was St Himerius (died ca. 570).