Anastasia the Patrician
Byzantine courtier; the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora; Christian saint
Feast: 10 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Anastasia the Patrician (Latin: Anastasia Patricia, Greek: Άναστασία Πατρικία, romanized: Anastasía Patrikía; fl. 576) was a Byzantine courtier and later saint. She was a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora. Justinian I, Theodora's husband, may have pursued her, as Theodora grew jealous of her. Anastasia, to avoid any trouble, left for Alexandria in Egypt. She arrived at a place called Pempton, near Alexandria, where she founded a monastery which would later be named after her. She lived with monastic discipline and wove cloth to support herself.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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- Butler's Lives of the Saints — St Anastasia Patricia, virgin (10 March) — Butler's Lives lists at 10 March: 'St Anastasia Patricia, virgin'. Feast day matches the March 10 given for this person. No external URL fetched; local corpus path given.
- Wikidata Q1291868 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Anastasia the Patrician (CC BY-SA)
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