Neonilla

Holy Martyr Neonilla was the sister of Saints Asterius, Claudius and Neon, with whom she is commemorated on 30 October (new style, the Greek calendar). The four siblings came from the city of Laranda, were of Isaurian stock, and suffered in the time of Diocletian, under Lysias the governor of Cilicia, around the year 288.

After their father died they fell into the hands of a wicked stepmother who wanted to seize the property he left. The siblings did not allow it and willingly used the money to help the poor. The stepmother, to take revenge, denounced them to the governor Lysias as Christians. They were arrested and tortured cruelly, but their resolve did not change. All four were finally beheaded, and their bodies were thrown into ravines to be eaten by birds of prey. Their souls, however, flew in glory before the throne of God, awaiting the great day of reward.

A verse says that Neonilla, stretched on the wood, cast out the ancient harm of the wood.