Neollina

Holy Martyr Neollina is remembered in the region of the Metropolis of Edessa and Pella on the first Sunday after Theophany, together with the Holy Virgin Martyrs Domnina and Parthena of Edessa. No details have been preserved for Neollina and Domnina. Of Saint Parthena it is said that she was born at Edessa in Macedonia about the fourteenth century and lived in asceticism and modesty. On 26 December 1375, when the Turks took the city betrayed by her father, she rebuked him and refused to renounce Christ. Her father beat her, then handed her to the Turks, who tortured her for three days and buried her alive on a hill that is still called the "Hill of the Virgin".