Venerable (Monastic) · 4th century
Saint Platonis of Nisibis
Also known as Platonida of Nisibis
A former deaconess who founded a women's monastery in the desert near Nisibis in Syria, renowned for its strict ascetic rule and daily fasting.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints