According to her legend, Candida was an elderly woman who hospitably welcomed Peter the Apostle, when he was passing through Naples on his way to Rome.[1] The woman was cured of an illness by Peter and converted to Christianity.[2] She was baptized by Peter and later converted Aspren, the first bishop of Naples, to Christianity.[3]
She is one of the patron saints of Naples. Basil Watkins says she probably never existed. Her name has been deleted from the revised Roman Martyrology.[4]
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^Monks of Ramsgate. "Candida the Elder". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 26 September 2012 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"Sant' Aspreno di Napoli". Santi e Beati. April 19, 2002.
^Dunbar, Agnes Baillie Cunninghame. A Dictionary of Saintly Women United Kingdom, Bell, 1904. p. 142
^Watkins OSB, Basil. "Candida the Elder", The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN9780567664150
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