Sophia the Physician

Holy Martyr Sophia the Physician was a doctor and died beheaded for Christ. She is commemorated on 22 May.

In icons she is shown with a cross in her hand and with medical instruments, and she also appears in the icons of the extended synaxis of the holy unmercenary physicians. The Synaxarion says in verse that she was a doctor of bodies before, and now, through her beheading, she is shown to be a healer of spirits as well. Other details of her life, and of the place and time of her martyrdom, have not been preserved.