Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Dionysia, martyr at Alexandria
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Dionysia (2), at Alexandria, a.d.
251, mother of many children, who, loving her Lord more than her children, died
by the sword, along with the venerable lady Mercuria, without being tried by torture,
as the prefect had succeeded so ill with Ammonarion that he was ashamed to go on
torturing and being defeated by women (Dion. Alex. ad Fab. ap. Eus.
H. E. vi. 41).
[E.B.B.]