The Holy Righteous Martyr Anysia.
Saint Anysia, who was from Thessalonica, was the daughter of pious and wealthy parents. After their death, she passed her life in virginity, serving God by means of good deeds. One day, as she was on her way to church, a pagan soldier approached her and asked her to accompany him to the temple of the idols, but she refused. When he began to drag her with him, she spit in his face and confessed Christ. Filled with anger, he thrust his sword into her side and slew her, in the year 298, during the reign of Maximian.
Because of the Apodosis of the Feast of the Nativity on the 31st of this month, the hymns of Saint Melania the Younger are transferred to this day.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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