Venerable Anthusa Abbess of Mantineon
An eighth-century abbess of a monastery at Mantineon in Paphlagonia who, with her ninety sisters, was tortured under the iconoclast emperor Constantine V Copronymus for venerating the holy icons — burning icons set on her head and coals at her feet — before being exiled. Having foretold the safe birth of the emperor's twin children, she was allowed to return to her convent, where she reposed in great old age about 759.
An eighth-century abbess of a monastery at Mantineon in Paphlagonia who, with her ninety sisters, was tortured under the iconoclast emperor Constantine V Copronymus for venerating the holy icons — burning icons set on her head and coals at her feet — before being exiled. Having foretold the safe birth of the emperor's twin children, she was allowed to return to her convent, where she reposed in great old age about 759.
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