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Venerable (Monastic) · 15th century

Saint Euphrosyne Grand Princess of Moscow

Also known as Eudokia of Moscow · Euphrosyne of Moscow

The pious wife of Grand Prince Demetrios Donskoy who, widowed, gave herself to almsgiving, fasting, and the building of churches, and at the last received the monastic tonsure as Euphrosyne.

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Notes

May 17 marks her tonsure; also commemorated Jul 7. Wife of St Demetrios Donskoy (May 19).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints