Lived in the 8th century. Born through the fervent prayers of her parents, and after their death, she was raised in a women's monastery in Constantinople dedicated to Saint Martyr Anastasia. She took monastic vows after distributing her remaining parental possessions to the poor, part of which she used for writing icons of the Savior, the Mother of God, and Martyr Anastasia. During the reign of Leo the Isaurian, a fierce persecutor of icon veneration, a decree was issued to destroy holy icons. In Constantinople, there was a bronze image of the Savior, which the false patriarch-iconoclast Anastasius ordered to be removed. The venerable martyr, along with other nuns, rushed to defend the icon, for which she was imprisoned. For a week, she was subjected to a hundred blows, and on the eighth day, after being brutally beaten, she was led through the city. One of the soldiers inflicted a fatal wound on her, from which she died. Her body was reverently buried by Christians in the monastery of Diokritus in Constantinople, and the burial place became renowned for numerous healings of the sick.
