Saint Greca

Saint Greca (12 October 284 – 21 January 304, Decimomannu[1]) was a Christian woman who lived on Sardinia.

Tradition holds that the saint was a Christian living in Decimomannu in the 3rd and 4th centuries who was imprisoned and whipped.

That monastery dated back to the 9th century - a coffin for a nun named Greca from that era has been found in Fangariu Cagliari.

[4] It records a woman called Greca aged 20 years, 2 months and nineteen days and that she was buried on 21 January.

[6] The inscription also bears the Christ monogram and precedes Greca's name with B. M., the Latin abbreviation for Beatae memoriae (of blessed memory) or Bene merenti (well worthy), rather than as previously thought Beata Martyr (blessed martyr)[7]).