While working on the biography of Saint Theodota, who is commemorated on July 29, I found the following interesting antagonism: the first website I visited, mentioned the commemoration of "the Holy Virgin Martyr Theodota and her three children". I've always been instructed, that there was only ONE immaculate conception, so ofcourse I was interested immediately. In the meantime I have been researching this quite a while, but the more I read, the more confused I got. What's happening here? The concerning website only mentioned te following about her biography: "little is known except that she was a virgin who was horribly tormented and slain for her confession of Christ". One other website repeated this information, but then all other sources came up with completely different stories. Almost all websites write about the Theodota, who helped Saint Anastasia. This Theodota seems to have three children. Others write about three sons, and only the name Evodius (her eldest son) seems to be known. But every story had different biographic elements. While searching further, I found a website, which gave the possibility that her sons could be Evodius, Hermogenes and Callistaes (or Callistus), who are commemorated on September 1. The next website however, presented this as a fact. And another one even mentioned the names Benjamin and Berius, which I found nowhere else (and this statement really must be a mistake). To make it more complicated other sources stated that this concerns Callista, Evodius and Hermogenes, which means, that Theodota did not have three sons, but two sons and a daughter. And after that another one came up with a fourth name: Agathokleia. Yeah, right. Some biographies were very short, some gave very detailled dialogues, too detailed to be true, if you ask me. In the end only one fact seemed reliable to me: "little is known except that she was horribly tormented and slain for her confession of Christ". Which brings me back to the very first website I visited. Except ofcourse for the question: was she a virgin or not???