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Saint Afra (died 304), allegedly originally a courtesan in Augsburg, sheltered the bishop who had converted her. The authorities of the Diocletian persecution condemned her to burn alive, then burnt her mother Saint Hilaria and her maids Ligna, Eunonia and Eutropia as they interred her in a vault.
The feast of Saint Afra occurs on 5 August.
