Anisia of Solunia ( Greek Ανυσία ; 285 - 304 , Thessaloniki ) is a Christian saint, venerated in the face of martyrs , who suffered during the reign of Emperor Maximian . Memory is celebrated in the Orthodox Church on December 30 ( January 12 ), in the Catholic Church on December 30 .
Biography
The life of Anisia is known exclusively from two everyday monuments (one is attributed to Simeon Metafrast , the second deacon and referendum Gregory). According to the lives, the martyr Anisia lived in the Greek city of Thessaloniki and came from a Christian family. After the death of her parents, she distributed the inheritance to the poor and spent her life in prayer and fasting .
Dimitry of Rostov reports that Anisia was stopped by a Roman warrior on the way to the church, who suggested she go on a pagan holiday. After refusing, he grabbed her and tried to tear the cover off her head. Anisia pushed him away and spat in his face and said: “May the Lord Jesus Christ forbid you, devil!” After that, as Dmitry Rostovsky writes, “the warrior, unable to bear the name of Christ, drew the sword that was with him and hit pierced her sideways. "
The body of the saint was buried by Thessalonian Christians outside the city “two miles from the gates of the Casantriotic”, later a prayer house was built over her grave. Currently, the relics of the saint in silver cancer are in the basilica of St. Demetrius (Thessaloniki).
The memory of Saint Anisia is already known from the Typicon of the Great Church of the 10th century, where it is indicated without any special service. In Russia, the earliest evidence of veneration of Anisia is an indication of the day of her memory in the month of the Ostromirov Gospel (1056-1057). In modern practice of the Russian Orthodox Church, the follower of the martyr Anisia consists of three sticheras in the Lord, the cries of the 4th voice, the canon of the 4th voice of Theophanes with a saddle and a kondak .
Popular superstitions
On Anisia-ventricle, January 12, boiled pork stomachs and cut geese. According to the insides, liver and spleen, they wonder about winter.
Literature
- Dimitry of Rostov . The Suffering of the Holy Martyr Anisia the Maidens // Lives of the Saints.
- O. V. Loseva, A. Yu. Nikiforova. Anisia // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2001. - T. II. - S. 442-443. - 752 s. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-007-2 .