As a young girl, she was tortured and then executed for her Christian beliefs, dying before the age of seventeen.
After her death in the third century, her body was buried in a cemetery in Via Portuense just outside Rome.
In 1795, with the blessing of Pope Pius VI, her remains were transported to the small town of Blato on the island of Korčula in the Adriatic.
There, her relics were placed inside the local church of Svi Sveti (All Saints).
A classicist chapel for Vicenca was built within the church as well as a luxurious tomb.