The
Holy Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre
(https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2015/05/saint-theodosia-virgin-martyr-of-tyre.html)
Sainte Théodosie
Martyre à Césarée de
Palestine (+ 307)
ou Théodora.
Originaire de Tyr, elle
aidait les prisonniers qui avaient confessé le Nom du Christ et attendaient
enchaînés de comparaître devant le tribunal. Elle fut arrêtée à son tour,
torturée puis jetée à la mer. Tous ceux qu'elle avait soutenus furent condamnés
aux implacables mines de cuivre de Phaeno, un long et douloureux martyre.
À Césarée de Palestine,
en 307, la passion de sainte Théodora, vierge de Tyr. Pendant la même
persécution, elle salua publiquement les confesseurs de la foi debout devant le
tribunal et les pria de se souvenir d’elle devant le Seigneur. Les soldats
l’arrêtèrent et la menèrent devant le préfet Urbain. Sur son ordre, elle eut le
corps déchiré, puis fut jetée à la mer.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7141/Sainte-Theodosie.html
Sainte Théodosie, vierge,
martyre à Tyr
Cette sainte naquit à
Tyr. On dit d'elle qu'un jour ayant rencontré des Chrétiens enchaînés qu'on
menait au supplice, elle s'approcha d'eux et les pria de se souvenir d'elle,
quand ils seraient devant le Seigneur. Trahie par cette démarche elle fut amenée
devant le juge et après avoir supportée vaillamment les tortures, elle fut
jetée à la mer sous le règne de Maximin (307). C'est le jour de la Sainte
Théodosie, que les Turcs en 1453 ont pénétré en Constantinople et que le
dernier empereur Constantin XI périt dans le combat.
SOURCE : http://fr.ecumenicalcalendar.org.ua/2011/11/29/apostle/ste-theodosie-vierge-martyre-a-tyr
Theodosia of Tyre VM (RM)
Born in Tyre; died in
Caesarea, Palestine, in 308. At age 18, the consecrated virgin, Saint
Theodosia, travelled to Caesarea in Palestine, where she saw some Christian
martyrs on their way to execution on Easter Sunday. She congratulated them on
their happiness, asked them to pray for her, and exhorted them to patience and
perseverance.
Overheard by the officials, she was seized, tortured on the rack, flayed,
hanged by the hair, and pierced with nails. She endured all this cheerfully.
Nothing could shake her inmost calm. To the judge she sweetly said: "By
your torture you procure for me that great happiness which it was my grief to
see deferred. I rejoice to see myself called to this crown, and return hearty
thanks to God for vouchsafing me such a favor." Enraged that she could not
disturb her, the governor finally ordered her to be cast into the sea. The
other confessors he condemned to work the mines in Palestine.
Saint Theodosia is honored in both the East and the West, but she is
particularly venerated in Venice, Italy. The historian Eusebius, an eyewitness,
records her martyrdom in his History of the Martyrs of Palestine, c. 7
(Benedictines, Husenbeth).
Saint Theodosia is portrayed in art as a maiden holding a stone. She may also
be shown (1) being thrown into water with a stone around her neck; (2) as the
angel brings her ashore; or (3) nailed through her feet to a cypress tree and
hanged by her hair (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0402.shtml
April 2
St. Theodosia, Virgin and
Martyr
SHE was a native of Tyre.
Having been educated in the Christian faith, she had, by vow, consecrated her
virginity to God. She was not eighteen years of age when, in 308, being at
Cæsarea, and beholding there the cruelties exercised by the barbarous governor
upon the servants of God, her zeal prompted her to address the confessors who
stood bound in the square before the governor’s court to be interrogated. She
congratulated them on their happiness, and besought them to remember her in their
prayers when they should be with God, and earnestly exhorted them to patience
and perseverance. The guards apprehended her as if guilty of a crime on account
of this action, and presented her to the governor, who for three years and a
half had sought in vain, by every invention of cruelty, to extirpate the
Christian name out of his province; but finding the blood of martyrs to be a
seed which served to further the propagation of Christianity, he was no longer
master of his fury. Seeing the undaunted air with which this tender virgin
appeared before him, he took it for an insult of his power, and caused her to
be stretched on the rack in the most cruel manner; and her sides and breasts to
be torn with iron hooks and pincers, and at length her breasts to be cut off
with the utmost barbarity. Nothing could draw from her the least complaint or
sigh: but she suffered these tortures with an amiable cheerfulness painted on
her face, and sweetly said to the judge: “By your cruelty you procure me that
great happiness which it was my grief to see deferred. I rejoice to see myself
called to this crown, and return hearty thanks to God for vouchsafing me such a
favour.” She was yet alive when the governor, finding it impossible to add to
his cruelty, ordered her to be thrown into the sea. The other confessors he
condemned to the mines in Palestine; but was himself shortly after beheaded by
his master for his crimes. St. Theodosia received her crown on the 2nd of
April, on which day her name occurs in the Roman, Greek, Russian, and other
calendars. Her memory is honoured with particular devotion at Venice, and in
many other places. Concerning her martyrdom, see Eusebius, an eye-witness, in
his History of the martyrs of Palestine, c. 7. and her Acts published from the
Chaldaic by Assemani, t. 2, p. 204. 1
Note 1. St.
Theodosia suffered under eighteen years of age; St. Apian not yet
twenty. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume IV: April. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/4/023.html
Virginmartyr Theodosia of
Tyre
Saint Theodosia of Tyre
lived during the third and fourth centuries. Once, during a persecution against
Christians, which had already lasted for five years, the seventeen-year-old
Theodosia went up to condemned Christian prisoners in the Praetorium in Caesarea,
Palestine. It was the day of Holy Pascha, and the martyrs spoke about the
Kingdom of God. St Theodosia asked them to remember her before the Lord, when
they should come to stand before Him.
Soldiers saw that the
maiden bowed to the prisoners, and they seized her and led her before the
governor, Urban. The governor advised the maiden to offer sacrifice to the
idols but she refused, confessing her faith in Christ. Then they subjected the
saint to cruel tortures, raking her body with iron claws until her bones were
exposed.
The martyr was silent and
endured the sufferings with a happy face, and to a second suggestion by the
governor to offer sacrifice to the idols she answered, “You fool, I have been
granted to join the martyrs!” They threw the maiden with a stone about her neck
into the sea, but angels drew her out from the depths. Then they threw the
martyr to the wild beasts to be eaten by them. Seeing that the beasts would not
touch her, they cut off her head.
By night St Theodosia
appeared to her parents, who had tried to talk their daughter into not going to
the sufferings. She was in bright garb with a crown upon her head and a
luminous gold cross in her hand, and she said, “Behold the great glory of which
you wanted to deprive me!”
The Holy Martyr Theodosia
of Tyre suffered for Christ in the year 307 or 308. On May 29 we commemorate
the transfer of her relics to Constantinople and Venice. She is also
commemorated on April 3.
SOURCE : http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/05/29/107796-virginmartyr-theodosia-of-tyre
THE CONFESSION OF
THEODOSIA, A VIRGIN OF GOD,
IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE
PERSECUTION WHICH TOOK PLACE IN OUR DAYS.
THE persecution in our
days had been prolonged to the fifth year. And it was the month Nisan, and the
second day of the same month, when a godly virgin, and holy in all things, one
of the virgins of the Son of God in the city of Tyre, who was not yet eighteen
years old, out of pure love for those, who on account of their confession of
God were set before the tribunal of the governor, [p. 24] drew near and saluted
them, and entreated them to remember her in their prayers: and because of these
words which she had spoken to them, the wicked men were filled with anger, as
if she had been doing something unjust and improper; and the officers seized
her forthwith, and took her before the governor Urbanus, for he still held the
power in Palestine. And I know not what happened to him, but immediately, like
one much excited by this young woman, he was filled with rage and fury against
her, and commanded the girl to offer sacrifice: and because he found, that
although she was but a girl, she withstood the imperial orders like a heroine,
then did this savage governor the more inflict tortures on her sides and on her
breast with the cruel combs; and she was torn on the ribs until her bowels were
seen. And because this girl had endured this severe punishment and the combs
without a word, and still survived, he again commanded her to offer sacrifice.
She then raised her lips and opened her eyes, and looking around with a joyful
countenance in that time of her suffering, (for she was charming in beauty and
in the appearance of her figure), with a loud voice she addressed the governor:
Why, oh man, dost thou deceive thyself, and not perceive that I have found the
thing which I prayed to obtain at thy hands? for I rejoice greatly in having
been deemed worthy to be admitted to the participation of the sufferings of
God's martyrs: for indeed, for this very cause, I stood up and |23 spake
with them, in order that by some means or other they might make me a sharer in
their sufferings, so that I also might obtain a portion in the kingdom of
heaven together with them, because so long as I had no share in their
sufferings, I could not be a partaker with them in their salvation. Behold
therefore now, how, on account of the future recompense, I stand at present
before thee with great exultation, because I have obtained the means of drawing
near to my God, even before those just men, whom but a little while ago I entreated
to intercede for me. Then that wicked judge [p. 25], seeing that he became a
laughingstock, and that his haughty threats were manifestly humbled before all
those who were standing in his presence, did not venture to assail the girl
again with great tortures like the former, but condemned her by the sentence
which he passed to be thrown into the depths of the sea.
And when he passed on
from the condemnation of this pure girl, he proceeded to the rest of those
confessors, on whose account this blessed maiden had been called to this grace,
and they were all delivered over to the copper mines in Palestine, without his
saying a word to them, or inflicting upon them any sufferings or torture; for
this holy girl prevented all those confessors by her courageous conduct against
error, and received in her own body, as it were on a shield, all the
inflictions and tortures which were intended for them, having rebuked in her
own person the enemy that opposed them; and subdued by her valour and patience
the furious and cruel judge, and rendered that fierce governor like a coward
with respect to the other confessors. It was on the first day of the week that
these confessors were condemned in Caesarea; and in the month above written and
in the year noted by us was this act accomplished.
SOURCE : http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_martyrs.htm#24
St. Theodosia of Tyre,
Virgin Martyr
Commemorated on April 3
During the persecution
against Christians, which had already lasted for five years, seventeen-year-old
Theodosia visited the condemned Christian prisoners in the Praetorium in
Caesarea, Palestine. It was the day of Holy Pascha, and the martyrs spoke of
the Kingdom of God. St. Theodosia asked them to remember her before the Lord,
when they should come to stand before Him.
Soldiers seized her and
led her before the governor Urban after seeing the maiden bow to the prisoners.
The governor ordered that she offer sacrifice to the idols but she refused,
confessing her faith in Christ. They then subjected the saint to cruel
tortures, raking her body with iron claws until her bones were exposed.
The martyr was silent and
endured her sufferings with a happy face. When the governor ordered her again
to offer sacrifice to the idols she answered, “You fool! I have been granted to
join the martyrs!” They threw the maiden with a stone about her neck into the
sea, but angels rescued her. They then threw her to the wild beasts to be
eaten. Seeing that the beasts would not touch her, they cut off her head.
That night St. Theodosia
appeared to her parents, who had tried to talk their daughter out of her
intention to suffer for Christ. In a bright garb with a crown upon her head and
a luminous gold cross in her hand, she said, “Behold the great glory of which
you wanted to deprive me!”
The Holy Martyr Theodosia
of Tyre suffered in the year 307. She is also commemorated on May 29 (the
transfer of her relics to Constantinople, and later to Venice).
By permission of the
Orthodox Church in America (www.oca.org)
SOURCE : http://www.antiochian.org/node/18210