Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
 
 
 
 
 
 

Venerable Theodora of Constantinople      1/12/2013

She was a nun and lived in obedience of Saint Basil the New (26 March). After her death she appeared to Saint Gregory, a disciple of Saint Basil, and described him the twenty trials that her soul had to pass until by prayers of Saint Basil it entered eternal peace. She presented herself before God on 30 December 940.