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Venerable (Monastic) · 12th century

Venerable Euphrosyne Abbess of Polotsk

Also known as Predslava · Euphrosyne of Polotsk

A princess of Polotsk who refused marriage to take the veil, copying books with her own hand, founding convents and a school, and adorning the Church; she reposed on pilgrimage in Jerusalem.

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Notes

Region (Polotsk, in present Belarus) mapped to Rus' / Russia.

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