Anastasia of Sirmium

Who they were

Anastasia was martyred at Sirmium, in Pannonia, in Diocletian's persecution. Her veneration reached Rome only at the end of the fifth century, but she has a unique place in the Roman liturgy: she is commemorated in the second Mass of Christmas Day, and her name is in the Roman Canon. A later legend makes her a Roman noblewoman taught by St Chrysogonus.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: Anastasia has been honoured as a martyr since the fourth century.

Why that counted as sanctity

Anastasia gave her life for Christ, and the Church remembers her in the very Mass of His birth.

Connected on this site

• Fausta of Sirmium Saint Mother, Parent
  “Anastasia of Sirmium.” — Wikipedia
• Saint Chrysogonus Saint
  “It is possible that the founder of the church was a certain Chrysogonus, and that, on account of the similarity of name, the church was soon devoted to the veneration of the martyr of Aquileia, In a similar way the veneration of Saint Anastasia of Sirmium was transplanted to Rome.” — Wikipedia