Saint

Parthena

A saint commemorated in the Serbian Orthodox calendar.

Feast: January 8old style January 21
Reposed: 137314th century

Life

Holy Martyr Parthena was a native of Edessa in northern Greece. She was buried alive in the year 1373 for faith in Jesus Christ, when the Turks took the city of Edessa. At Edessa they still show the hill where she was buried alive. The Serbian Church commemorates her on 8 January by the old calendar (21 January by the new).

Commemorated the same day January 8

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