Name
Olympias, deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408
Saint ID
S01414
Number in BH
BHG 1374-1375
Reported Death Not Before
408
Reported Death Not After
408
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
"Confessors", Virgins, Lesser clergy , Married but sexually abstinent
| ID | Title | E03176 | Palladius of Helenopolis writes the Lausiac History, a collection of short narratives and teachings of male and female ascetics in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Italy, commissioned by the patrician Lausos. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. Overview entry | E03332 | Palladius of Helenopolis, in his Lausiac History (56), refers to *Olympias (deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408, S01414) as a confessor. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. | E03811 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 25 July *Anna (mother of Mary, S01614), *Olympias (deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408, S01414), *Eupraxia (virgin and ascetic at Tabenna, S01637), *Kyprianos and Ioustina (martyrs of Antioch, S01704), *George (probably the soldier and martyr, S00259). | E08128 | The Greek Life of *Olympias (deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408, S01414), written by a relative and companion of the hero, recounts the life of an aristocratic woman who founded a large nunnery and charitable house next to the cathedral of Constantinople. It describes the miraculous return of her dead body from Nicomedia to Constantinople and its burial in the monastery church of *Thomas (the Apostle, S00199) at Brochthoi on the Golden Horn. Written at Constantinople in the early 5th c.. | E08129 | The Narrative on the Translation of the Relics of *Olympias (deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408, S01414) by the abbess Sergia recounts the miraculous recovery of the desecrated relics of the saint during the Persian invasion of 626, and their burial at her monastery in central Constantinople. During the ceremony of deposition (katathesis), the relics are placed in the baptismal font to be perfumed, but they miraculously ooze ‘blood’. Written in Greek at Constantinople in the early 7th c. |
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