Feast Day: December 18th
The Life of Saint Sophia: …when the Venerable was at an old age, she heard about the accomplishments of her son, so she went to the desert of Judea, where she offered all her possessions to the Venerable. Savvas, because his Lavra was to be untrodden by women, sent her to the Coenobium of Venerable Paula in Bethlehem, where Sophia struggled well, and attained to a perfect measure of virtue…
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A Prayer
Saint Sophia Pray to God for us.
Saint Sophia is the mother of Saint Savvas the Sanctified
Saint Sabas loved Christ and lived a life of asceticism from a young age, placing all his hope in God. When he was a baby, he would not take his mother’s milk on Wednesdays and Fridays. Below is an Icon of Saint Sabas with his Blessed parents John and Sophia. They left Saint Sabas in the care of his uncle when he was five years old. However his aunty treated him very badly so he fled to his other uncle to live. The two uncles began to quarrel over the care of Saint Sabas and his family’s property, so Saint Sabas, at the age of eight, entered a nearby Monastery to live there. Later on, when he had established many Monasteries, his mother came to him upon the repose of her husband, and Saint Sabas Tonsured her a Nun.
