Saint
Susanna the Myrrh-bearer
One of the myrrh-bearing women who served Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.
- Era
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Life
Holy Susanna the Myrrh-bearer is mentioned only once in the Gospel, by Saint Luke, as one of the women who served Christ.
The evangelist Luke says, telling how the Lord Jesus Christ went through cities and villages to preach and proclaim the good news, that among the women who accompanied Him was Susanna, who served Him out of her means (Luke 8:3). No other facts of her life are preserved in the sources consulted.
She is commemorated, in the new style, on 16 May, a movable date, on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-bearing Women.