Mary of Perge

Saint Mary of Perge, a venerable woman, is remembered on 21 March, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with Saint James the Confessor and Saint Serapion of Sidon. The synaxaria do not know her. Her commemoration appears in the Lavriotic Codex D 25, which also holds a sung service for her, with a canon whose acrostic opens with a prayer to the "most blessed" one. The canon seems to be the work of Theophanes and praises her as a victorious martyr, so she is called sometimes venerable, sometimes martyr.