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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Bassa of Jerusalem

A venerable woman of Jerusalem, honored by the undivided Church.

Feast
December 9old style December 22
Era
unknown
Place
Jerusalem
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Bassa of Jerusalem was a patrician and the abbess of a women's monastery at Jerusalem. There she also founded the Monastery of Saint Menas, whose abbot was Stephen, the bishop of Jamnia.

Her memory is found in the old Kanonarion of Jerusalem (on page 120). She is commemorated on 9 December, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.

Commemorated the same day December 9