Saint
Basilissa
Wife of the Emperor Maxentius, commemorated in the Greek Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- November 25old style December 8
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Basilissa is called in the Greek Menaion the wife of the Emperor Maxentius. The synaxarion remembers her on 25 November, the day of the Great Martyr Catherine and the Great Martyr Mercurius, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). She is named on the same day as the general Porphyrius. Our sources say nothing more about her life.
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