The Domina is certainly a figure present in Christian iconology even if there remains an aura of mystery around her true identity: the Domina Victoria could be a personification of the Church, or she could be understood as a generic representation of martyrdom. It is also true that the word Domina in Latin means “Woman, lady”, so it could be that Holy Woman martyred in Nicomedia together with the Saints Agape, Inde and Theophila. Lacking further attestations, it is difficult to establish which of these is the most likely solution, but this does not call into question the truthfulness of the documents preserved in the Archive, which testify to the commission for a statue of a woman called “Santa Domina Virgo et Martyr” that matches with this very own statue.

Tales of the statue in Dome’s building site:

The original statue, created in 1824, was designed by the sculptor Donato Carabelli. Today at the top of Spire G72 rests a faithful reproduction of it from the year 1961, created by Gaetano Matteo Monti of Ravenna, in which the Holy Domina Martyr appears as a young woman wrapped in a simple drapery while she brings her hands to her chest, one under her another, perhaps in an act of prayer. Originally the sculpture was positioned to crown Spire G105 in correspondence with the north transept, but was subsequently moved to the apse area where it can still be admired in all its beauty today.