Epiphania of Pavia explained

Honorific Prefix:Saint
Epiphania
Death Date:800
Feast Day:6 October

Epiphania, Epifania or Pyphania (died 800) is recorded in the late medieval traditions of Pavia as daughter of Ratchis (744/749 – 756/757), King of the Lombards and of Italy.

She was a Benedictine nun and was buried in the monastery of S. Maria Foris Portam, which was founded in Pavia, the Lombard capital, by her father.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Holweck, Frederick George . A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints: With a General Introduction on Hagiology . 1924 . B. Herder . 1 . 325 . en.