Sarah

Holy Martyr Sarah died around 303, a martyr of the fourth century venerated in the Coptic Orthodox Church. She is commemorated on the twenty-⁠fifth day of the Coptic month of Baramouda (3 May). Unable to baptize her two sons in Antioch because of the persecution of Diocletian, she took them by boat to Egypt. A great storm blew up and, fearing her sons would drown unbaptized, she baptized them herself: she cut her breast, marked the cross on their foreheads and over their hearts with her blood, and dipped them three times in the sea, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The storm died down and the ship reached Alexandria.

Sarah took her sons to Pope Peter I for official baptism, but the water froze three times when he tried to baptize them; then he said, "It is indeed one baptism." On returning to Antioch, she was accused by her husband of having gone to Alexandria to commit adultery with Christians, and was sent before the emperor. She refused to confess or reveal her true purpose. She was burned together with her two sons, probably in 303 or 304.