Holy Martyr Theodosia of Tyre

Life

In the time of Emperor Maximian, in Caesarea of Palestine, many Christians stood one day bound before the praetorium. This pious virgin Theodosia approached them and blessed them and encouraged them for a martyr's death. When the soldiers heard what she was saying, they led her also before the judge. The enraged judge ordered that a stone be hung around her neck and that she be cast into the depths of the sea. But the angels of God brought her out alive upon the shore. When she appeared again before the judge, he ordered her beheaded. The following night Theodosia appeared to her parents, all in exceedingly great heavenly radiance, surrounded by many other saved maidens, and said: "Do you see how great is the glory and grace of my Christ, of which you wished to deprive me?" She said this to her parents because they had been trying to dissuade her from confessing Christ and from martyrdom. She honorably suffered and was glorified in the year 308.