Saint Patience

The Empress Augusta Helen - Dragasi Palaiologos was also known as Saint Hipomoni. She was the daughter of the emperor of Slavs Constantine Dragasis. She became empress of Byzantium as the wife of Emmanuel Palaiologos. Her husband became a monk with the name Mathieu. After his death she became a nun at the Monastery of Kira–Martha, taking the name Hipomoni. She later became Saint Hipomoni, translated to Saint Patience.She died on March 13, 1450, 3 years before Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans. Her memory is celebrated in March 13, the day she died, and May 29, the day that Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and her son Constantine XI Palaiologos died.

See Main Article:Saint Hipomoni

Sources

• O Μέγας Συναξαριστής της Ορθοδόξου εκκλησίας (μ. Βίκτωρος Ματθαίου), τρίτη έκδοση, Μονή Μεταμόρφωσης Σωτήρος, Αθήνα, 1968.
• Τσολακίδης Χρήστος, Αγιολόγιο της Ορθοδοξίας, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, έκδοση 2001.
• Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Σωτήριος Μακρυστάθης. ‘Η Αγία Υπομονή: Ιστορία και ασματική ακολουθία της’. Αθήνα, 1993.
• Δρ Χαράλαμπος Μπούσιας, Kανών Παρακλητικός και Χαιρετιστήριοι Οίκοι εις την Οσία Μητέρα Ημών Υπομονή, έκδοση Ιεράς Μονής Αγίου Παταπίου, Λουτράκι, Ελλάδα, έκδοση 2007.
• Dr Haralambos Bousias, Saint Patapios and his miracles, nunnery of Saint Patapios, Loutraki, Greece, edition 2004.

External links

• Information about St Hipomoni from the Church of Sparta
• http://www.impantokratoros.gr/agiaypomoni.el.aspx
• http://www.globalusers.com/monastir_eng.htm