Vicenta de Coria


Santa Vicenta de Coria (424) is a legendary character, from a late tradition, documented in sixteenth and seventeenth-century historiographical works, in which she is said to have been a Christian martyr in Coria (Cáceres). She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Historicity

The first source for the citation was the alleged chronicle of Luci Flavi Dextre, son of Paciano de Barcelona, ​​which was actually written at the end of the 16th century by the Jesuit Jerónimo Román de la Higuera and published for the first time in 1619. The ability of the falsification made that it had been taken by many authors like a work authentically ancient and written in century V, reason why its affirmations, the majority without any real historical foundation, happened to other serious works until the point of seriously altering the chronology of the facts narrated and provoking that cathedral chapters, municipal councils, etc., believing what was said, began to worship or to appoint patrons to non-existent saints, who rooted in popular tradition. By the middle of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, other authors were responsible for demonstrating the falsity of this chronicle and the works in which they were inspired, but the traditions, legends and worship begun had already settled and the people continued to consider some of these stories as authentic, to the present, despite their falsity. Legend

According to tradition, created to make the city of Coria the cradle of a holy martyr, Vicenta or Vincencia would have been a young Christian. In the fifth century, the invasion of Hispania by the barbarians brought many Arians, who persecuted the Catholics. Vicenta was a young single, possibly religious, who did not want to abjure of Catholicism, despite the threats of death. When she refused, she was killed by the Arians in the same Coria in 424. Veneration

Your holiday is celebrated on March 15th. The history of the saint is very late and has a local reach and has never been recognized by the Church, so the saint does not figure in the saints or in the Roman Martyrology. Instead, devotion took root in the city and throughout Extremadura.

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