Nun-Martyr Eugenia of Rome, and with her the Martyrs Philip, her father, Protus, Hyacinth, Basilla, and Claudia

According to her Life, Eugenia was the daughter of Philip, a Roman sent as prefect of Egypt under Commodus. In Alexandria she read Christian writings, left home with two servants, Protus and Hyacinth, and, dressed as a man, was received into a monastery, where she rose to be its abbot. Falsely accused by a woman named Melanthia, she revealed who she was before her own father’s court, and her family became Christians; Philip, the Life says, became bishop of Alexandria and was martyred.

Eugenia went to Rome with her mother Claudia, converted the noblewoman Basilla, and was beheaded about 262. The Roman Martyrology places her tomb in the cemetery of Apronian.