Friday, December 29, 2017

Martyr and Saint from Greece

St. Anysia

Image of St. Anysia

Facts

Feastday: December 30
Birth: 284
Death: 304


Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword.

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