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Confessor 4th century

Saint Publia the Confessor Deaconess of Antioch

Also known as Publia

A widowed deaconess who led a women's ascetic community and openly resisted Julian's pagan revival, and was beaten for singing psalms against idolatry.

Feast Day
October 9
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Their life

A widowed deaconess who led a women's ascetic community and openly resisted Julian's pagan revival, and was beaten for singing psalms against idolatry.

Her companions & kin
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Eusebius Bishop of Samosata
Hierarch
Saint Philogonius Bishop of Antioch
Venerable (Monastic)
Venerable Peter of Atroe
Confessor
Confessors Zosimus the Hermit and Athanasius
Hierarch
Emilian the Confessor Bishop of Cyzicus
Martyr
Virgin Martyrs Neonilla Domnina and Parthena of Edessa
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints