Drosida

The holy Martyr Drosida (in Greek Drosis) is a martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion on 28 July. Neither the time nor the place of her suffering is known.

The only report preserved about her concerns the manner of her death: she was cast into a crucible in which gold was smelted, and there she received the crown of martyrdom. The verses of the synaxarion build on this image, saying that Drosida, thrown into the gold furnace, was found mixed with no dross, like pure gold tried in the fire.

Her memory survived in the Greek and Slavonic verse synaxaria, among them manuscripts of 1301 and 1370. She is not included in the present-⁠day calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, but she is kept in the calendar of the Church of Greece, which commemorates her on 28 July together with the holy Martyrs Acacius of Miletus and Eustathius of Ancyra.

She should not be confused with the holy Martyr Drosida, daughter of the emperor Trajan, who is commemorated on 22 March.