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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Fool-⁠for-⁠Christ

Anastasia

A holy woman who took up the struggle of foolishness for Christ, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
March 1old style March 14
Era
unknown
Order
Fools-for-Christ

Life

Saint Anastasia, a fool for Christ, is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 1 March (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) as a new martyr. The English calendar names her Anastasia Andreyevna, fool for Christ and new martyr in the North Caucasus.

The sources consulted give no other details about her life, nor about the time or the manner of her death.

Commemorated the same day March 1