Zlata of Meglen
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Zlata of Meglen | |
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Great Martyr | |
Born | unknown Slatina Ottoman Empire |
Died | 1796 Slatina Ottoman Empire |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Feast | October 18 |
Saint Zlata of Meglen (Macedonian: Света Великомаченичка Злата Мегленска, Bulgarian: Света Великомъченица Злата Мъгленска, Greek: Ἁγία Χρυσή; died October 18, 1795) is an 18th-century Eastern Orthodox saint and new martyr.
Zlata was born in the eighteenth century in the village of Slatina, in the province of Meglen (today Chrysi, Greece), to a poor, peasant family with three other daughters. She died on October 18, 1796. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates her feast day on October 18; the Greek, the Russian, the Serbian and the Macedonian Orthodox Church Orthodox churches - on October 13. Her hagiography was written by Nicodemus the Hagiorite. In Bulgaria and North Macedonia Saint Zlata is often depicted as young woman, wearing a traditional folk costume. In Bulgaria, Saint Zlata is patron saint of all Bulgarians living abroad.
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- Житие и страдание на Света Великомъченица Злата Мъгленска. (Life and Suffering of Saint Great Martyr Zlata of Maglen) (in Bulgarian)
- Национална библиотека "Св.св. Кирил и Методий" (in Bulgarian)
- Страдање Свете великомученице ЗЛАТЕ Мегленске (Suffering of Saint Great Martyr Zlata of Meglen) (in Serbian)
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