Remembered on December 22
Anastasia and her companions
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
- Anastasia
- Great MartyrA martyr whom the Church especially honors with this title for outstanding witness and endurance in suffering.
All great martyrs
- Great MartyrA martyr whom the Church especially honors with this title for outstanding witness and endurance in suffering.
Anastasia came from Rome during the persecutions under Diocletian. Her traditional life remembers her bringing food and tending wounds in Christian prisoners’ cells. The Church remembers these martyrs together, without forgetting the care they gave one another. Anastasia’s service reminds us that visiting, feeding and caring for people in trouble are part of a life of prayer.
How they died
Tradition holds that Anastasia, Agape, Chionia, Theodota and Theodota's children died by fire; Chrysogonus was beheaded, and Irene was killed by a soldier's weapon.
- Feast day
- December 22
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on January 4. - Kind of saint
- Martyr, Great Martyr
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