Chaido of Stanos

Venerable New Martyr Chaido of Stanos was born around the year 1800 in the village of Stanos in the Mademochoria of Chalkidiki, then in the Ottoman Empire. She died a martyr around the year 1822.

Around 1821, during the uprising in Chalkidiki, she fled with her mother to Thasos and settled at the metochion of the Pantokrator Monastery in Kallirachi, where her mother died. Chaido was killed by Turks who broke into the metochion.

In 1888 she was proclaimed a saint, and her feast was set for 1 September. In her native village a church bearing her name was built.