Euprepia

Saint Euprepia is an entirely obscure saint of the island of Lesbos. The Greek source notes that her existence, her biographical data and the day of her feast have not been verified. She has no known day of commemoration.

At the place called Argala on Lesbos, excavations in 1931 found a cross-⁠shaped martyrion with two tombs containing crushed bones, and the ruins of a large basilica with a baptistery, regarded as sixth-⁠century. On these ruins stood the old chapel of Saint Euprepia, which still exists today. Because there is no saint of this name in the catalogue of the saints of the Church, the question remains whether some saint unknown to us of this name was martyred on Lesbos, which would explain the old chapel bearing her name.