Saint Susanna, virgin and martyr, is said to have been the daughter of
Saint Gabinus of Rome. The lengthy account given of her in mediaeval legend is, however, unreliable. The account claims that on her refusal to marry a pagan relative of the Emperor
Diocletian, she was arrested as a Christian. According to her
Acts, she was beheaded about the year 295, at the command of Diocletian, in her father's house, which was turned into a church together with the adjoining one belonging to her uncle, the prefect Caius or, according to other accounts,
Pope Caius. The church became known as
Sancta Susanna ad duas domos. Susanna is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for 11 August in the following terms: "At Rome, commemoration of Saint Susanna, in whose name, which was mentioned among the martyrs in ancient lists, the basilica of the
titular church of Gaius at the Baths of Diocletian was dedicated to God in the sixth century." The commemoration of her that was included in the
General Roman Calendar was removed in 1969 because of the legendary character of the
Acts of her martyrdom. ==References==