Martyr
Iraja
A saint honored in the West, of whom little is known.
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- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Iraja was, according to legend, the sister of the martyr Abadir and a child of the sister of Basilides. She was arrested at Alexandria, taken to Antinoe in Upper Egypt, and beheaded with her brother, the physician Cluthus and many others. She is venerated in the Coptic Church. One historian of the saints regards the story as unreliable.