Saint Albina

According to Nennius, Britain gains its earliest name, Albion from Albina, the White Goddess, the eldest of the fifty Danaïdes.

[1] Albina refers to a woman put to death in the second century, along with her brother Paxentius, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180).

Their relics ended up in Saint-Martin-des-Champs Priory after being sent from Rome to Paris, and their fate is recorded in a Parisian breviary.

[1] According to the Roman Martyrology, Saint Albina was a young woman from Caesarea, Palestine,[2] who died a martyr in the third century, during the reign of the emperor Decius, ca.

The Bollandists Henchenius and Papenbroch (of the Acta Sanctorum) did not consider her inclusion in the calendar properly supported by authority.