Anastaso

Saint Anastaso the Venerable fell asleep in peace after a devout life. She is commemorated on 18 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) among the venerable fathers Stephen, patriarch of Constantinople, Macarius and Martinian, in the list of the saints of the day.

The place called in the synaxarion "Leukadion" or "Laukation" is not the island of Lefkada: it lay on the coast of Bithynia, not far from Akritas and, very probably, near Dakibyze. The English calendar names her Anastaso (Anastasia) of Leukadion, near the Bithynian shore.