ioakeim2007.03.13 [20:33]
She is the last Empress of Byzantium (1390-1450 m.H.). It was said Helen Dragasi and was the wife of Manouil B' Palaiologou.
Mother, with eight children, from which Ioannis I' Palaiologos emperor (1425-1448) and Konstantinos IA', the saint National martyr last Emperor of (1448-1453 - 29 May).
Her life was life saint and life of fight with patience. For this and afterwards the death of her husband the (1425), became Nun with the name PATIENCE.
Her boys Theodoros, Andronikos and Dimitrios finished their life as Monks. The himself and her grandson, girl of son of Thomas.
Saint Patience her life as nun roughly 25 years afterwards the death of her husband and the himself slept in 1450.
Picture of Saint Patience is found in the Monastery of Saint Patapiou in the Loytraki Korinthias in Greece.
traveller2007.03.12 [22:22]
Her feast is 29th May. I've find something about her on internet (see http://www.aegeantimes.gr/pigizois/agioi/maios/29_5.htm) but my Greek is not enough to understand and translate the text. Maybe we can ask fr. Ioakeim.
