Tags: Saint.

Saint Anastasia is a Christian saint and martyr who died at Sirmium Serbia. In the Orthodox Church she is venerated as St. Anastasia the Pharmakolytria i.e. Deliverer from Potions (Ἁγία Ἀναστασία ἡ Φαρμακολύτρια).Concerning Anastasia little is reliably known save that she died in the persecutions of Diocletian; 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.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Anastasia of Sirmium"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.