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Saint Publia the Confessor Deaconess of Antioch

Also known as Publia

A widowed deaconess who led a women's ascetic community and openly resisted Julian's pagan revival, and was beaten for singing psalms against idolatry.

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