Saint
Martha of Monemvasia
A holy woman of the town of Monemvasia, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- May 5old style May 18
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Monemvasia
Life
Saint Martha of Monemvasia is a saint of the town of Monemvasia in Laconia (Peloponnese), commemorated on 5 May.
No information about her life is preserved. Her name belongs among the saints who shone in Laconia, commemorated together in a synaxis of their own. Her veneration is local, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), and the source comes from the Holy Metropolis of Monemvasia and Sparta.
Commemorated the same day May 5
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- Matrona of HureziVenerable · Abbess of Hurezi MonasteryMay 5
- Gideon of SerpukhovVenerable · MonkMay 5
- Euthymius of MadytosSaint · Bishop of MadytosMay 5
- Amador, Pedro and Luis of MartosHoly MartyrsMay 5
- Amator of CórdobaHieromartyrMay 5