Today, Wednesday (25.6.2025) according to panel The memory of Hosea Libya, Saint Love, Holy Euphrates of the Duchess of the Russians is honored.
The names that celebrate today, according to the calendar, are:
- Livios, Livas, Libya,
- Eros, love,
- Febronia, Febronia, I am leaving, Fevo,
- Fevra, Find, Februla, Fayroula, Fayronitsa, Fevronitsa.
Agia Fevronia
Agia Fevronia was a sought after nymph for her physical beauty. But so did her pure soul. For this reason, at the age of 17, she chose the path of exercise and temperance to the monastery where her aunt, Vryen, was in Mesopotamia (in the city of Nisiveos, called Antioch of Migdonia and was at the Byzantine and Byzantine border).
Soon, despite her young age, she was adapted to the difficult rules of lonely life while also finding time to study and deepen the divine scriptures. She became an example among the other nuns for her prudence, her zeal, her willingness and her humble mind.
One day, however, a military corps that was pursued by Christians, led by the Moon (288 AD), also arrived at the Monastery of Fevronia. The other nuns managed to escape, but the saint who was sick failed to move. Near her were Abbot Brienne and sister Thomais.
The soldiers, as soon as they saw Febronia, were amazed at its beauty. So they let three men guard her and the rest turned around and reported it to their leader moon. He immediately ordered it and brought it in front of him, and in every way he pressed her to change. He suggested to Febronia to give her a wife to his nephew Lysimachus, who would know with him great glory. Fevronia, however, preferred to become “of the future revealing a glorious society” (1st Peter, 1st).
That is, he preferred to be a glory involved who will be revealed in the Second Coming, and with excess courage despised the proposals of the moon, who, after torturing her, eventually killed her with a sword.