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- Our Venerable Mother Xenia of Rome, with her two maidservants (5th c.)
- She was
the daughter of a noble Christian family in Rome, and was named Eusebia in Baptism.
Though she desired to offer up her virginity to Christ, her parents arranged a marriage
for her against her wishes. On her wedding night, she secretly fled the city,
accompanied by two slaves, and took ship for Alexandria. When she reached the island
of Kos, she changed her name to Xenia ('Stranger'), and prayed to God that, as he had
sent the Apostle Paul to St Thecla (see September 24), he would send her a true guide
on the path to salvation. Soon a holy Elder named Paul found her and made her his
spiritual child. He took her and her two companions to Mylassa in Caria (where he
later became Bishop), and established them in a monastery there. For many years they
lived the 'angelic life' very fully, and Xenia reposed in peace at an advanced age. At her
funeral, a luminous cross appeared in the sky over the procession, following the burial
party and disappearing only when the Saint's body was buried.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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