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- Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308)
- During the persecutions of the Emperor Maximian, the virgin
Theodosia came to comfort a group of Christians who were standing before
the governor of Caesarea in Palestine. When she encouraged them not
to shun martyrdom, she too was brought before the judge, who ordered
that a stone be tied around her neck and that she be thrown into the
sea; but angels carried her to shore unharmed. The judge then ordered
that she be beheaded. The night that the sentence was carried out,
Theodosia appeared to her parents, surrounded by heavenly light and
accompanied by other virgin martyrs, and said, 'Do you see how great is
the glory and grace of my Christ, of which you wished to deprive me?'
(Her parents, wishing to preserve her from martyrdom, had tried to
prevent her from confessing Christ).
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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