Commemoration
Holy Drosida
March 22 Old CalendarApril 4 New Calendar
Life
She was the daughter of Emperor Trajan. She was seized along with five other women while gathering by night the bodies of martyrs who had suffered for Christ, and for this was severely punished by the emperor. Those five women were heavily tortured and finally cast into molten copper, where they gave up their souls to their Lord. Drosida remained under strict imperial guard. But she escaped from the palace and baptized herself in a certain river. After eight days she gave up her soul to God.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, March 22. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on March 22
The full reading for March 22 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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