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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Saints Anna and her Son John of Constantinople

Also known as Anna · Euthymianus · John

A widow of Constantinople who, taking the name Euthymianus, lived in a monastery in the guise of a man, and with her son John shared a hidden life of ascetic struggle.

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Named mother and son commemorated as one.

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