Biography of St. Anastasia

She lived in the third century during the time of Diocletianov's persecution; came from Rome from noble parents. Her father was a pagan, and Favst’s mother was a secret Christian. When the mother of Anastasia died, her father married her to the pagan. Very often, dressing in the Rubshit, the holy martyr left the house, went around the dungeons and, bribing the guard, encouraged Christian prisoners in the upcoming torment, brought them food, washed them and bandaged their wounds.

The husband often beat Anastasia for this, then locked the house and wanted to destroy. God punished him for such a circumvention with his wife - he died during a storm at sea. After the death of her husband, St. Anastasia began to serve prisoners with great zeal, moving from city to city, from village to village. The emperor reported that Christians enclosed in dungeons did not renounce Christ, because they hold their teacher Chrysogon tightly, and Diocletian ordered him to kill him.

After the death of the teacher, St. Anastasia began to wander in order, wherever possible, to serve Christians enclosed in prison. In Macedonia, the saint met a young widow - Christian Theodotia, who helped her in pious works. It became known that Anastasia is a Christian, she was taken into custody. After asking Anastasia, Diocletian found out that she spent all her funds to the aid of those in need and weak.

The emperor ordered the supreme priest to incite her to sacrifice the victim to pagan gods or to betray a brutal execution. After long days of torture by hunger in the dungeon, St. Anastasia was devoted to martyrdom. Holy Anastasia was stretched between four pillars and burned. Her honest body, not damaged by fire, was asked by one pious wife Apollinaria, who buried him with honor in her vineyard.

Over time, when the persecution of the church stopped, she erected a temple over the grave of the martyr. Many more years passed, St. Anastasia was glorified, and with great honors, honest relics were transferred to the reigning city of Constantinople. Translation: the victorious resurrection of the true name of the same name is Anastasia from the Greek. His pray for the salvation of our souls.

Translation: In temptations and sorrows, who come to your temple, they receive venerable talents from the divine grace living in you, Anastasia, for you always exude healing for the world. Anastasia Pattern. XV centuries. He [pharmacolithia; Greek. According to the life of Simeon Metaphrast con. Chrysogon, who strengthened her in the Christian faith. After the death of her mother, she was married to a pagan Publi Pomplion, but even in marriage she kept his virginity, referring to an incurable disease; Secretly from her husband A.

Publi, having learned about this, he began to brutally oppress her, and after the death of Pretekstat he decided to seize her inheritance; Soon he was sent with the embassy to Persia and died during a shipwreck. After the death of her husband, A. learned from a vision of the coming martyrdom of Agapia, Hionia and Irina, the saint strengthened their spirit before arrest.

Once, having come to prison and learning that all Christians are executed by order of imp. Diocletiana, A. She was sent to the governor of the province of Illyrik Flor, and then to the emperor, who, out of respect for her noble family, set off the execution, entrusting the priest at the temple of Jupiter Ulpian to force A. Ulpian proposed a holy choice: jewelry or instruments of torture, when she without hesitation chose the latter, for a long time tried to persuade her to return to paganism.

Realizing the futility of his intentions, Ulpian wanted to desecrate her purity, but, not having time to touch her, blinded and soon died. While in prison, A. Then, along with other prisoners sentenced to death, they decided to drown, putting on a ship, in the bottom of which holes were made.

Miraculously, the ship swam to the shore, and at the fed A. A. all the saved prisoners were baptized and were executed; A. Time, place and circumstances of the death of A. in ancient West. In the oldest Slavic grooves under October 29. Anastasia Solunskaya 30 Oct. According to Jeronimov Martyrologist, A. Sirmiy modern. According to Simeon Metaphrast, the relics of A. according to Roman legend, the temple in honor of A.

in Constantinople the Temple of the MC. Anastasia, who was in the portico of Domnin, existed with con. Marquian in the 5th century According to Theodore Anagnost. Leo I and the Patriarch of Gennady to this temple were transferred by relics A. Unknown Greek. Anastasius I as a wild on the site of a certain pharmacian house on behalf of which is supposedly a saint, while the temple of St.

III; According to the life of St. Andrei Yurodivi, at the church of A. Anthony Novgorod, saw in Constantinople the power of A. on the same day with A. Feodotia and her son Mch. Memory of A. Anastasia in Domnin Porrios Mateos. Different editions of the Studio Charter - the Messinsky typic of the city of the XII century. Service A. Cristoforo Mitileneo. Teodoro Prodromo. On the veneration of A.

chants A. XI - beginning. Brief Life A. XII - beginning. XIII century. Sofia b-ka. In the VMF, in addition to the wire life of A., the table of contents of the VMH. The Church of S. Praha, Mikhailov, O. Loseva, E. Bespakhota particle of the relics of St. Anastasia is available in the ark of the model of Prince. In July, Gerasimenko, Y. Zelenin, S. Zaigraykin in reduction, adapted.Mikhailov P.