Spase and Spasa of Višni

Spase and Spasa of Višni are two righteous ones of the village of Višni, in Macedonia, commemorated together. According to tradition they were orphaned siblings who fled from the Turks and settled in hard-⁠to-⁠reach places. Spasa struggled in a cave church at Višni, where she also reposed.

Long after her death, on a sleepless night, she appeared to a woman named Maria, a Christian of Belica who was bedridden, and told her to tell the people of Višni to gather her bones, for she had no rest. After a second appearance Maria gained an unusual strength and set out with her brother through the darkness to find the relics; while she was wrapping them to carry them to the village church, her stiff body became light and nimble. The Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church entered her, with Spase, in the diptychs of the holy hierarchs and confessors on 11 April 2024.