Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français' II,3) (BHL 6061) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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Life of Saint Petronilla of Rome (+ 293/305). She is usually represented as the christian daughter of St. Peter. According to legend she became ill through the agency of her father Peter, who prayed for her illness. Like this, he wanted to keep her out of the hands of bad suitors. Once she recovered she got a marriage proposal from the pagan Flaccus, which she didn’t want to accept because of the fact that she consecrated her virginity to Christ. Petronilla was given three days to think the matter over. During those days she fasted so extreme that she died. She was buried in the catacombs of Domitilla next to the tombs of St. Nereus and Achilleus.

London, British Library, Add.mss. 6524 (Link)

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