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Saint

Perse

A holy woman commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
September 24old style October 7
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Perse (also called Persis) is recorded in Delehaye's Synaxarium on 23 and 24 September and in Paris codex 3041 on 24 September, with a couplet which says, in sense: "After sailing a short time, Perse, you moored at the great harbour of heaven." Other details of her life are not preserved in the sources consulted. She is commemorated on 24 September, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).

Commemorated the same day September 24