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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century
Venerable Theodora of Thessaloniki and her Daughter Theopiste
Also known as Theodora of Thessaloniki · Theopiste
A woman of Aegina who, widowed at Thessaloniki, entered the monastic life with her young daughter Theopiste, and reposed in holiness in the year 892.
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Notes
Named mother and daughter commemorated together. Nominally Aug 29; celebrated Aug 3 because of the Beheading of the Forerunner.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints