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Our Patron Saint - Saint Sophia and Her three Daughters Faith, Hope & Love

The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, and Love, and Their Mother, Sophia

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During the reign of the impious Roman Emperor Hadrian, a widow of Italian ancestry called Sophia, whose name means wisdom, lived in Rome. She was a Christian, and in accordance with her name, she lived wisely, showing that wisdom praised by the Apostle James, who says, The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits. This wise gentlewoman, Sophia, while living in honorable wedlock, bore three daughters, whom she named after the three great virtues. The first was named Faith, the second Hope, and the third Love, for to what does Christian wisdom give birth other than to God-pleasing virtues?

Soon after the birth of her three daughters, Sophia was widowed. Living piously, she pleased God by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. She reared her three daughters in a manner befitting a wise mother

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Saint Sophia is also known as Saint Sophia the Martyr or Wisdom. She was born in Italy and is best known for having three daughters that she named after the virtues of Faith, Hope and Love. During the reign of Hadrian, her young daughters were taken in front of Hadrian and asked to worship another God. She encouraged them to remain steadfast to their faith.

They kept their composure, and one by one, they were taken to be tortured. After emerging unscathed from boiling pitches and furnaces, they were beheaded. Saint Sophia died after three days of praying at their graves. The Bulgarian capital city was later named after her church in remembrance.

August 1 marks the holiday where her sacrifice is remembered, and there is a statue of her in the capital city of Sofia in Bulgaria. Images of Saint Sophia often show her and her three daughters holding crosses.

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Troparion & Kontakion

The Holy Martyrs Saint Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love were born in Italy. Their mother was a pious Christian widow who named her daughters for the three Christian virtues. Faith was twelve, Hope was ten, and Love was nine. Saint Sophia raised them in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Sophia and her daughters did not hide their faith in Christ, but openly confessed it before everyone.

An official named Antiochus denounced them to the emperor Hadrian (117-138), who ordered that they be brought to Rome. Realizing that they would be taken before the emperor, the holy virgins prayed fervently to the Lord Jesus Christ, asking that He give them the strength not to fear torture and death. When the holy virgins and their mother came before the emperor, everyone present was amazed at their composure. They looked as though they had been brought to some happy festival, rather than to torture. Summoning each of the sisters in turn, Hadrian urged them to offer sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. The young girls remained unyielding.

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