Who are celebrating? today March 10 according to the calendar: Saint Anastasia the Patrician.
*In the life and practice of Saint Anastasia of Patricia, whose memory the Church celebrates today, what the apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters is applied: “give no place to the devil”.
* Kodratos of Corinth and those with him, Neomartyr Michael Mavroides of Hadrianoupolis, Saint Anastasia of the patrician
The saintly Anastasia, when she realized that Theodora, the wife of the Emperor Justinian, envied her, said to herself;
“Anastasia, save your soul and free the queen from the printing press and instead of the honors you have in the palaces you will win the heavenly kingdom”.
He lived in the desert for twenty-eight years and exchanged the worldly traffic of royal palaces for prayer, fasting and the study of the divine law.
When you can sense your eternal destiny, then your eyes are opened and you see the value of the worldly, which never reaches the value of the soul.
“What shall he give in exchange for his soul?”
Biography
Osia Anastasia came from noble and wealthy parents and was one of the most God-fearing daughters of Byzantium, in the years of Justinian the Great (527 – 565 AD).
She was the first attendant of Queen Theodora, and Justinian, for her wonderful merit, gave her the title of patrician.
Her virtues, however, caused the envy of the queen. Anastasia, in order to extinguish any reason for envy, took part of her property and fled to Alexandria. There, in a place called Fifth, he built a Monastery, which was called the Monastery of Patrikia, and lived an ascetic life.
But when she learned that Justinian was looking for her, she left the monastery and went to Abba Daniel’s hermitage, to whom she told what had happened.
After he dressed her as a man and renamed her Anastasios, he placed her in a cave next to Skete and two monks brought her what she needed.
At the same time he told her never to leave the cave, nor to receive anyone. She was locked up there for 28 years.
When she foresaw her end, she invited Abba Daniel and, following receiving communion of the holy mysteries, surrendered her righteous soul.
Source: ekklisiaonline.gr
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