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- Virgin-Martyr Febronia of Nisibis (310)
- Though the daughter of a Roman senator and a great beauty, she fled
the world and entered a monastery in Mesopotamia. (So great was her
beauty that the abbess had her stand behind a screen while reading to
her monastic sisters.) At that time the Emperor Diocletian sent a
certain Selenus, along with his nephew Lysimachus, on a mission to find
and destroy Christians in the East. Though Selenus was a fierce
persecutor of the Christians, Lysimachus felt sympathy for them and
secretly protected them whenever he could. Selenus and his party came
to Nisibis, where Febronia's virtue and holiness had already become
well-known, though she was still only twenty years old. Selenus
summoned her and made every effort to convince her to renounce her
faith. When she stood firm, she was first viciously dismembered then
beheaded. Lysimachus gathered her relics and took them to the monastery
for burial. At the monastery he, together with many soldiers, were
baptized. The holy Febronia's relics worked many healings, and she
herself appeared to the other nuns on the anniversary of her repose,
standing in her usual place among her sisters. Her relics were
translated to Constantinople in 363.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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