Saint Anastasia the Patrician

Memorial

• 10 March

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Christian Byzantine noble. Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Theodora in Constantinople. To escape the unwanted attentions of the Emperor Justinian, Anastaia fled the court to a convent in Alexandria, Egypt. On the death of Theodora, Justinian launched a search for Anastasia. To escape, she assumed a male identity and costume, and lived her remaining 28 years as a hermit in the desert of Scete.

The story is believed by many modern scholars to be a pious legend.

Died

• c.507 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Anastasia the Patrician”. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-anastasia-the-patrician/>