Healed by the chains of Saint Peter

Not much is known about Saint Balbina, whose mortal remains rest in the Roman Basilica named after her and built in her honour in the fourth century, in the piccolo Aventino,in the neighbourhood of San Saba. According to the Passio Alexandri (fourth century) and the Passio Balbiniae et Hermetis, Balbina was the daughter of the tribune, Quirinus.