The Holy Martyr Vasilissa.
Commemorated September 3 in the Orthodox Christian Menaion
From the Prologue
A nine-year-old girl, she suffered in Nicomedia not long after the death of Anthimus. The torturers covered her whole body with wounds, but she remained faithful to Christ. God preserved her unharmed in fire and before wild beasts.
Her torturer, Alexander, seeing these wonders, repented and became a Christian.
Vasilissa went out into a field, fell on her knees and prayed to God, thanking Him for her endurance under torture, and, while thus praying, gave her soul into God's hands.
This was in the year 309.
From The Prologue From Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich
©1985 Lazarica Press, Birmingham UK
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