[2] She was starved for three days in a slaves' prison house, tortured upon the rack, and thrown on a burning pile.

It is difficult to establish the true identity of this Roman martyr since the various information concerning her probably refers to three different people.

It stands on the site of a very early title church, the Titulus Priscoe, mentioned in the fifth century and built probably in the fourth.

In the eighteenth century there was found near this church a bronze tablet with an inscription of the year 224, by which a senator named Caius Marius Pudens Cornelianus was granted citizenship in a Spanish city.

As such tablets were generally put up in the house of the person so honoured, it is possible that the senator's palace stood on the spot where the church was later built.

Whether the martyr buried in the Catacomb of Priscilla belonged to the same family or was identical with the founder of the title church cannot be proved.

[1] A legend from the eighth century has identified the founder of the Titulus Priscoe with St. Paul's friend Priscilla, whose home would have occupied the spot on which the church was later erected.