Venerable Martyr Theodosia

Life

Born in answer to the prayer of her mother, the holy martyr Athanasia, who appeared to her and told her she would give birth. Her parents dedicated her to God and gave her early to a women's monastery. After the death of her parents, from their enormous estate she commissioned from a goldsmith three icons: of the Savior, the Theotokos, and Saint Anastasia, and distributed all the rest to the poor. She suffered in the time of the wicked Emperor Leo the Isaurian, the iconoclast, and received a twofold crown: the crown of virginity and the crown of martyrdom, in the year 730.