Marciana

• Year: c 303.
• Feast Day: Jan 9

The virgin Marciana saw in Caesarea the statue of Diana, and she destroyed it. She was first condemned by the governor to be raped by gladiators, but a miraculous wall protected her. Then she was sent to the beasts. A lion did not want to attack her. The Jews, present at the occasion, demanded that she was given to a bull, and then to a leopard, which finally killed her.