Righteous18th century

Saint Maria Brâncoveanu

Also known as Marica Brâncoveanu · Doamna Maria Brâncoveanu · Maria Brâncoveanu the Princess

Wife of the martyred prince Constantine Brâncoveanu and mother of eleven children, a patron of printing and of libraries in Romanian, Greek, Slavonic, Arabic, Turkish and Georgian. Taken with her family to Constantinople in 1714, where her husband and four sons were beheaded before her, she was exiled to the Black Sea coast and returned to Bucharest in 1716, bringing her dead home for burial in 1720.

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Their life

Wife of the martyred prince Constantine Brâncoveanu and mother of eleven children, a patron of printing and of libraries in Romanian, Greek, Slavonic, Arabic, Turkish and Georgian. Taken with her family to Constantinople in 1714, where her husband and four sons were beheaded before her, she was exiled to the Black Sea coast and returned to Bucharest in 1716, bringing her dead home for burial in 1720.

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Sources: Romanian Patriarchate communique, canonization of 16 women of holy life (1 July 2025); Basilica.ro; Doxologia.ro; Axia Women