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Amma (Mother) Sarah of the Desert (5th century) was one of the early Desert Mothers who is known to us today through the collected Sayings of the Desert Fathers and of the Holy Women Ascetics (the Matericon). [2] She was a hermit and followed a life dedicated to strict asceticism for some sixty years.
Sarah (died c. 303) is a 4th-century martyr venerated as a saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church.She is commemorated on the 25th day of Baramouda (3 May). [1]Unable to baptise her two sons in Antioch on account of the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian, she took them by boat to Egypt.
Saint Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kâli ("Sara the Black"; Romani: Sara e Kali), is the patron saint of the Romani people in Folk Catholicism. The center of her veneration is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer , a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue , in Southern France .
The relics of Behnam and Sarah are kept at the Monastery of Saints Behnam and Sarah in Iraq. [20] Some relics of the saints are also contained in the Monastery of Saint Menas in Cairo. [21] As well as this, the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Forty Martyrs at Mardin in Turkey purports to contain the remains of Saint Behnam. [22]
Righteous, mother of St. John the Baptist [253] Elizabeth the New Martyr: 1918 5 July Princess of Hesse, Venerable New Martyr [254] Emmelia of Caesarea: 375 30 May / 1 January Mother of Saints Basil of Caesarea, Macrina the Younger, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Naucratius; a.k.a. Emilia and Emily [255] Emerentiana: c. 305: 23 January ...
Maria Skobtsova [a] (20 [8 Old Calendar] December 1891 – 31 March 1945) was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II.. Also known as Mother Maria, [b] Saint Mary of Paris, or Mother Maria of Paris, she has been canonized a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and is remembered with a Lesser Feast in the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of ...
An 11th-century Eastern Orthodox icon of the Theotokos Panachranta, i.e., the "All Immaculate" Mary. [9] In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the faithful celebrate a liturgical feast on 9 December called the Conception (passive) of the Mother of God, which used to be more often called the Feast of the Conception (active) of Saint Anne. [10]
The Eastern Orthodox Churches teach that while Mary "inherited the same fallen nature, prone to sin" as with other humans, "she did not consent to sin through her free will." [ 1 ] Due to being conceived in ancestral sin , Mary still needed "to be delivered by our Savior, her Son" according to Eastern Orthodox teaching. [ 1 ]