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Martyr

Sophia the Healer

Martyr venerated in the Orthodox calendar as a healer.

Feast
May 22old style June 4
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Sophia the Healer is remembered as a martyr who was beheaded. The sources consulted preserve no other life of her, nor the time and place of her suffering.

She is commemorated on 4 June, in the new style; she is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day May 22