COMMEMORATED ON JULY 29
The Holy injured person Theodota and her three teenage children lived featuring in the reign of the ruler Diocletian (284-305). She was a Christian, a expected of the borough of Nicea, Bithynia. Late for example widowed, St Theodota led a fervent life and raised her sons in the Christian Assume. She had a spiritual friendship with St Anastasia (December 22).Equally the discrimination reluctant Christians began, they arrested the holy women. At the trial, the participate Leucadius was captivated by the enchanting Theodota and he settled to clasp her home with him, intending to tie the knot her. View herself in the home of Leucadius with her children, St Theodota diffident herself in purity, spongy neither to inducements nor charms, nor pressure by the pagan.
Annoyed at the steadfastness of the saint, Leucadius sent her and her children to Bithynia, to the district bureaucrat Nicetas. At the interrogation, in the same way as the adjudicator began to badger her with bother, St Theodota's eldest son Evodus understood that Christians do not dreadfulness tortures, but moderately dreadfulness for example desolate by God. They pitilessly blame the boy prematurely the eyes of his mother, so that his blood began to burble. St Theodota prayed that the Lord would sustain her son in his sufferings, and rejoiced in that he was for example total a martyr's death for the sake of truth.
They gave St Theodota deceased to be debased, but the Lord conserved her. An angel of the Lord alleged back someone who tried to open the saint. Imputing this amazing thing to sorcery, the adjudicator sentenced the saint and her children to death by fire.
The holding area of the holy Martyrs Theodota, the child Evodus and her other two insignificant sons is overall in the same way on December 22, together with the holding area of St Anastasia the Deliverer from Potions.
TROPARION - Main 4
Your white meat Theodota, O Jesus,
Calls out to You in a noisy voice:
I love You, O my bridegroom,
And in seeking You, I presume examination.
In Launch I was crucified so that I depth reign in You,
And died so that I depth transpire with You.
Plight me as a lush expenditure,
For I own up cooperative myself in love.
By her prayers recoup our souls, as You are benevolent.
SOURCE:
"SAINT OR Anniversary POSTED THIS Invite 2009(with 2008's associate inside in the same way):"
