Olivia of Palermo
Olivia of Palermo | |
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Statue of Olivia in the Cathedral of Palermo | |
| Virgin Martyr | |
| Born | 448 Palermo, Sicily |
| Died | 463 Tunis, Roman Africa |
| Venerated in | |
| Feast | 10 June |
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Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian towns of Monte San Giuliano, Termini Imerese, Alcamo, Pettineo and Cefalù.
Her feast day is on 10 June, and in art she is shown as a young woman surrounded of olive branches, holding a cross in her right hand.