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Saint Aurea of Ostia (or Aura; in Greek Chryse; both names mean “golden girl”) is venerated as the patron saint of Ostia. According to one scholar “[a]lthough the acta of Saint Aurea are pious fiction she was a genuine martyr with a very early cultus at Ostia.”According to tradition she was martyred sometime during the mid-third century either during the reign of Roman Emperor Claudius Gothicus or Trebonianus Gallus.
