Roman Catholic Saint. She was from a very wealthy family. Her father, Giovannato, was a nobleman from the Taro valley who owned an important manor house on the flanks of the Tidone valley that still exists today. Her sister, Faustina, is also venerated as a Catholic Saint. The two sisters lost their mother at a young age and were entrusted to a guardian named Marcello. Their father, having no other children, wanted his daughters to find a worthy and noble marriage. But the daughters were willing to follow another type of life, that of contemplation and prayer, in the service of God. These desires were thwarted by their father and the daughters had to flee home to make it come true. They took refuge in Como where they took the veil from Bishop Agrippino. They adopted Benedict's rule, which in those years began to expand. They founded a monastery dedicated to St. Margaret with an adjoining oratory dedicated to St. John the Baptist, a monastery that was vital for over a millennium and was then suppressed in 1810, by Napoleonic order, when ten nuns were still present. Upon their deaths, which occurred in the last years of the sixth century, the two sisters were interred in the monastic complex near Como. Around the year one thousand, when the place became unsafe due to continuous raids, the bodies were moved to the cathedral of Santa Maria di Como. In 1317 they were placed on the main altar of the cathedral which is still dedicated them today. In 1618 a part of their relics were donated to Piacenza, the city of origin of the saints, and are currently preserved in the church of Sant Eufemia. The two sisters Liberata and Faustina are celebrated as virgin saints in the new Martyrologium Romanum of the Catholic Church, on January 18.