Biography
Munditia
About Munditia
Munditia is venerated at Saint Peter’s in Munich as an early Christian martyr from Rome. The parish celebrates her on 17 November and recognizes her as a patron of single women. Her shrine stands on the Liborius altar in a side chapel of the church.
Her ancient personal history is difficult to recover. A study by historian Noria Litaker reproduces the text of the gravestone associated with her remains and cites a Munich devotional account printed in 1677. That early account acknowledged that neither the year nor the particular persecution in which she died was known.
The later history of the relics is more visible. The archdiocesan archive identifies their origin as Rome’s Cyriacus catacomb. It records that the Munich merchant and councillor Franz Benedikt Höger brought the remains, together with a blood ampulla and a gravestone, to Munich.
A surviving archival description records episcopal permission for their veneration in 1676. It names Bishop Albrecht Sigmund of Freising and Regensburg and notes an earlier Roman authentication. These records document the recognition and transfer of the relics in the seventeenth century.
The parish describes the shrine as a black Baroque case with silver ornament by Franz Keßler, dated 1677. The archdiocesan archive places the remains in the glass shrine on the Liborius altar in the church’s left aisle. Munich’s Catholic Bennofest programme also identifies Munditia as a catacomb saint and patron of single women.
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