Back Анастасия Узорешителница Bulgarian Anastázie ze Sirmia Czech Anastasia von Sirmium German Αγία Αναστασία η Φαρμακολύτρια Greek Anastasia de Sirmio Spanish Anastasie d'Illyrie French Sveta Stošija Croatian Szent Anasztázia Hungarian Anastasia ID Anastasia di Sirmio Italian
Anastasia | |
|---|---|
 Modern Orthodox Christian icon of Saint Anastasia the Holy Great-Martyr | |
| Virgin and martyr | |
| Born | 281 AD Rome |
| Died | December 25, 304 AD Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia) or Palmaria |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Eastern Catholic Churches Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Major shrine | Cathedral of St. Anastasia, Zadar |
| Feast | December 25 (Catholic) December 22 (Greek Orthodox) September 28 (Syriac Orthodox)[1] |
| Patronage | Pharmacists, Doctors, apothecaries, healers |
Saint Anastasia (died December 25, 304 AD) is a Christian saint and martyr who died at Sirmium in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia).[2] In the Eastern Orthodox Church, she is venerated as St. Anastasia the Pharmakolytria, i.e. "Deliverer from Potions" (Ἁγία Ἀναστασία ἡ Φαρμακολύτρια).[3] This epithet is also translated as "One who Cures (Wounds)" in Lampe's A Patristic Greek Lexicon.[4]
Concerning Anastasia, little is reliably known, save that she died in the persecutions of Diocletian;[5] most stories about her date from several centuries after her death and make her variously a Roman or Sirmian native and a Roman citizen of patrician rank. One legend makes her the daughter of a certain Praetextatus and the pupil of Saint Chrysogonus. Catholic tradition states that her mother was St. Fausta of Sirmium.
Anastasia has long been venerated as a healer and exorcist.
She is one of seven virgins and martyrs who, along with Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Roman Canon of the Mass.[6]
- ^ Curtin, D. P. (July 2015). Jacobite Arab Synaxarium- Volume I. Dalcassian Publishing Company. ISBN 9781088061237.
- ^ Butler, Alban; Burns, Paul (1 January 1995). Butler's Lives of the Saints. A&C Black. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-86012-261-6.
- ^ "St. Anastasia, the Deliverer from Potions". Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese.
- ^ G. H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon, , Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1961, p. 1472.
- ^ Smith, Philip (1867). "Anastasia". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 158.
- ^ 1976 Ordinary of the Mass in the Ambrosian Rite.