Vasilissa
Child saint
Feast: 16 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Vasilissa (300–309) was a Roman Christian girl who is venerated as a child martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church. According to tradition, she was a small child when martyred, suffering in Nicomedia not long after the death of St. Anthimus. The torturers covered her whole body with wounds, but she remained faithful to Jesus Christ.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q7916763 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Vasilissa (child martyr) (CC BY-SA)
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