Saint Bonosa

Bonosa (died c. 211) was a holy martyr from Porto Romano. Her feast day is July 15. Saint Bonosa was venerated in a basilica near Capo Due Rami in Porto Romano, together with Saints Eutropius and Zosimus. A portion of her relics was brought to Clairvaux Abbey by Cardinal Conrad of Urach in 1227. In 1256, they were moved from the church of San Lorenzo in Porto Romano to a church in Trastevere consecrated in her honor. These relics were rediscovered there in 1480 during work on a new altar. In August 1838, after a brief stay in the church of Sant'Apollinare, the remains were returned to Trastevere. Following the destruction of that church in 1888, the relics passed to the Canossian Sisters and remained in Rome. In 1958, they found a permanent place at the second altar on the left in the parish of Our Lady of Mercy and Saint Adrian. In this altar, dedicated to the martyrs Felicitas and Bonosa, the saint's relics rest behind glass. There is also another Saint Bonosa, whose relics rest in the church of Saints Marcellinus and Peter at the Lateran, in a lead urn placed inside an ancient green sarcophagus.