Anastasia the Patrician

Anastasia the Patrician

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Anastasia the Patrician
birth_date=6th Century
death_date=6th Century
feast_day=10 March
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church, Coptic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Church

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Saint Anastasia the Patrician ("Anastasia Patricia") was the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora. Justinian I, Theodora's husband, pursued her, arousing Theodora's jealousy. Anastasia tried to avoid any trouble and left for Egypt. She arrived at a place called Pempton, near Alexandria, where she founded a monastery which would later be named after her.

Following the death of Theodora in 548, Justianian attempted to get Anastasia to return to Constantinople, to no avail. Instead, Anastasia left for Scetis, looking for Apa Daniel, hugemeos of the monastery at that time. He put her in a monastery cell 18 miles from Scetis where she would take up the life of a hermitess. He visited her every week and ensured that one of his disciples supplied her with water.

In 576, 28 years after her arrival at Scetis, the disciple found an ostracon with the words "Bring the spades and come here." When Daniel heard this, he knew Anastasia was near death. He went to visit her with his disciple and to give her communion and hear her last words. Daniel revealed the full details of her story to his disciple after her death.

Her story comes to us in one recension of the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion and by a tale of Daniel of Scetis. Her feast day is 10 March in the Eastern Orthodox, Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches, and on 26 Tobi in the calendar of the Coptic Church.

References

Atiya, Aziz S. "The Coptic Encyclopedia". New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1991. ISBN 002897025X

External links

* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta78.htm Anastasia at "Patron Saints Index"]
* [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=536 Anastasia at "Catholic Online"]


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