Saint Anastasia the Patrician (Anastasia Patricia) was a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora. After Theodora's death she fled to the desert to escape the attentions of emperor Justinian I and became a hermit. Her feast day is 10 March. The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as that saints day. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... Image File history File links Gloriole. ... Anastasia or Anastacia or Anastatia is a female given name which comes from Koine Greek. ... Theodora, detail of a Byzantine mosaic in Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. ... Justinian depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale. ... Onuphrius lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century A hermit (from the Greek erēmos, signifying desert, uninhabited, hence desert-dweller) is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as that saints day. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ...
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