death_date death_place feast_day imagesize venerated_in titles article_title name
310 ad syria october 4 100px roman catholic church ; eastern orthodox church martyrs domnina , berenice , and prosdoce
 saints domnina , berenice , and prosdoce
domnina , berenice , and prosdoce

saint domnina and her daughters berenice -lrb- bernice , veronica , verine , vernike -rrb- and prosdoce are venerated as christian martyrs by the roman catholic and eastern orthodox churches .
according to eusebius , domnina was a christian noblewoman from antioch who had two young daughters .
according to one account , domnina and her daughters settled at edessa , mesopotamia .
her husband was a pagan .
domnina was arrested by soldiers for her adherence to the christian religion .
fearing that the soldiers would rape her and her daughters , they threw themselves into a river after they asked their guards for a chance to rest for a while or after the soldiers had become drunk with wine .
all three women drowned .
the account of st. john chrysostom tells a slightly different story : according to chrysostom , domnina , after jumping into the river , pulled her daughters in with her to prevent them from being raped .
chrysostom praised domnina for her courage and domnina 's daughters for their obedience .
