Holy Martyr Argyra

Life

This new martyr was from Bursa, born of pious parents. No sooner had she married a Christian man than a certain Turk from the neighborhood cast his eyes upon her and summoned her to live with him. The Christ-loving Argyra rejected such foul proposals from the Turk. But he flew into a rage and accused her before the court, claiming that she had wished to accept Islam and then recanted. From judge to judge, from prison to prison, the holy Argyra spent a full fifteen years suffering for Christ. For she loved Christ above all things in the world. At last she died in prison in Constantinople in the year 1725.