Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint, who was from Thessalonica, was the daughter of pious and
wealthy parents, After their death, she passed her life in virginity,
serving God by means of good deeds. One day, as she was on her way to
church, a pagan soldier approached her and asked her to accompany him to
the temple of the idols, but she refused. When he began to drag her
with him, she spit in his face and confessed Christ. Filled with
anger, he thrust his sword into her side and slew her, in the year 299,
during the reign of Maximian.
Kontakion in the Third Tone
As a doubly-shining lamp of truly mystical brightness do ye shine
upon the Church like a high-towering beacon: thou with beams of
martyr's glory, O Anysia; thou with rays of great ascetic deeds, O
Melania. Now together ye are honoured by Christ your Bridegroom for your
travails in His Name.
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