St. Anastasia the Roman

Anastasia is remembered as a young Christian woman from Rome who suffered martyrdom in the third century. Tradition holds that she lived among women devoted to prayer and refused to give up her faith when brought before the authorities. The Church remembers her courage and love for Christ. Much about her life is uncertain. What has endured is the memory of a young woman whose life mattered to God, even when those in power treated it as worthless.