Elizabeth the Wonderworker

Holy Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker became a nun in her youth, at the Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Constantinople. She regarded herself as the bride of Christ and this world as non-⁠existent. From her great love for God she was very merciful, especially to the sick and unfortunate. According to Christian tradition, through the gift God had given her she healed illnesses and freed people from their sufferings. At her night prayers many saw her all illumined. Christians believe that after death her relics did not decay and are wonderworking, so that for centuries people visited her grave. She died in the year 540. The Serbian Church commemorates her on 24 April by the old calendar (7 May by the new).