Eurosia

Saint Eurosia, also called Orosia, is traditionally said to have been born in Bayonne, though another ancient tradition remembers her as Dobroslava, a Bohemian princess born in 864. Noble by birth and formed in the Christian faith, she set out for Spain in 880, according to legend, to enter a marriage meant to strengthen the Christian realms resisting Moorish incursions. Crossing the Pyrenees toward Jaca, she was pursued by a Moorish captain who sought to claim her for himself. Eurosia fled into the mountains and hid in a cave, but was discovered and seized. Refusing to surrender her freedom and faith, she endured a brutal martyrdom, remembered for her steadfast courage and her prayerful trust in God even at the moment of death. In the centuries that followed, devotion to her grew around Jaca in Aragón, where her relics were honored and many graces were reported through her intercession. She is venerated as patroness of Jaca and the Diocese of Jaca, and is also invoked by those afflicted by spiritual oppression. Her feast day is June 25.