Our Holy Mother Theodora of Constantinople.

Commemorated December 30 in the Orthodox Christian Menaion

From the Prologue

She was a nun and a servant of St Basil the New (March 26th). After her death, she appeared to St Gregory, a disciple of St Basil's, and wrote down for him the details of all the twenty toll-gates through which her soul had passed until, helped by St Basil's prayers, she had entered into eternal rest. She left this world on December 30th, 940.

From The Prologue From Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich
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