Holy Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognios, Agapios and Pistos.
Saint Bassa was the wife of a pagan priest in Edessa who raised her three sons as Christians. Denounced by her husband, she watched her sons die for Christ and then suffered many tortures herself before being beheaded in the reign of Maximian.
She and her sons are honoured together on this day.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Bassa and her Children is commemorated on August 21. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on September 3 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on August 21
Athanasios Patellarios
Hierarch, Αθανάσιος ο Πατελλάρος
Saint Athanasios Patellarios, Patriarch of Constantinople, wonderworker of Lubny.
Abramios of Smolensk
Venerable, Αβράμιος Σμολένσκης
Venerable Abramios, Archimandrite of Smolensk, wonderworker.
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