Anna of Leucate
Christian byzantine saint
Feast: 23 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Anne, also called Susanna, was born at Constantinople about 840 and brought up by her widowed mother. She refused several offers of marriage, and when she also turned down a suitor backed by the emperor Basil the Macedonian she was ill-treated.
Having already lived as a nun in the world, she fled at about twenty-eight to Leucadia, a promontory in Epirus, and lived there alone for another fifty years. Long after her death cures at her tomb led to its opening; her body was found incorrupt, and she was greatly venerated by the Greeks.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Byzantine woman who lived fifty years as a hermit at Leucadia.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. III - 23 July
- Wikidata Q131302281 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.