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The holy and right believing Empress '''Helen Dragas Palaiologos'''({{el icon}} Eλένη Δραγάση; {{sr icon}} Јелена Драгаш; c.1372 – 1450), also known by her [[monasticism|monastic]] name of '''Ipomoni''', was the daughter of the emperor of the Slavs Constantine Dragasis and the wife of emperor Manuel II Palaiologos of Constantinople. Her name Ipomoni translates in English as '''Patience'''. She had six children. Her [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[March 13]]. Additionally, her memory is celebrated on [[May 29]].

An early siege of Constantinople occurred when St. Ipomoni and her husband were exiled from 1390 to 1392. She died on [[March 13]], 1450, three years before Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. Her son, emperor [[Constantine XI Palaiologos]], died in the final charge <ref>Some (although some say on the [[altar]] table of Hagia Sophia</ref> ) during the [[fall of Constantinople]] on May 29, 1453, while many other Christians were slaughtered by the Ottoman Turk forces of Sultan Mehmet II throughout the city as well as inside the [[Church]] of [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]].

St. Ipomoni was buried in the Monastery of the Pantocratoras in Constantinople, where were her husband and three of their children (of which two were [[monk]]s as well) were also buried.

After the [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]] by the Turks in 1453, Angelis Notaras, a nephew of St. Ipomoni, transferred to Geraneia mountain (at the city Loutraki, near Athens) the [[relics]] of St. [[Patapius of Thebes]] into a cage. The cave was a place where [[hermit]] monks lived since the eleventh century. Also, in that cage is a Byzantine [[icon]] of Ss. Patapios and Ipomoni as well as the skull of St. Ipomoni. In 1952, Father Nektarios Marmarinos established the [[Monastery of St Patapios (Loutraki, Greece)]] where they still keep the holly holy skull of St. Ipomoni.

In addition to celebrating her The memory on March 13, the day she fell asleep, of St. Ipomoni is also celbrated celebrated on [[May 29]], the day that Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and on which her son Constantine XI Palaiologos diedat the battle.

== Sources Reference==*''O Μέγας Συναξαριστής της Ορθοδόξου εκκλησίας'' (μ"Life, akolouthia, paraklitikos kanonas and egomia of the holy mother ‘’Saint Hypomone" [Dr. Βίκτωρος Ματθαίου)Charalambos Busias, τρίτη έκδοσηedition of Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios, Μονή Μεταμόρφωσης ΣωτήροςLoutraki 1999]* "Saint Hipomoni: History and asmatiki akolouthia" [Archpriest Makrystathis Sotirios, ΑθήναAthens, 19681993]* "Kanon parakletikos & Hairetistirioi oikoi to the Blessed Mother's Saint Hypomone" [Dr.Charalambos Busias, edition of the Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios Loutraki 2007*Τσολακίδης Χρήστος«The Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios in Loutraki» [edition of the Metropolis of Corinth, ''Αγιολόγιο της Ορθοδοξίας''Sikyon, ΑθήναZemenou, ΕλλάδαTarsus and Polyfengous, έκδοση 20012012].*Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Σωτήριος Μακρυστάθης«The Greek Monasteries» [Ev. ‘Η Αγία Υπομονή: Ιστορία και ασματική ακολουθία της’Lekkou, Ihnilatis, Athens, 1995]. Αθήνα* "Agiologio of Orthodoxy, 1993. " [Christos Tsolakidis, Athens, 2001 edition]*Δρ Χαράλαμπος Μπούσιας«O Megas Synaxaristis of the Orthodox Church" Saint Patapios, ''Kανών Παρακλητικός και Χαιρετιστήριοι Οίκοι εις την Οσία Μητέρα Ημών Υπομονή''p. (254) - (261) [m Victoras Mattheos, έκδοση Ιεράς Μονής Αγίου Παταπίου3rd edition, ΛουτράκιMetamorfosi Sotiros Monastery, ΕλλάδαAthens, έκδοση 2007.1968]*Dr Haralambos Bousias, "Saint Patapios and his miracles" [Stylianos Papadopoulos, professor of the University of Athens, nunnery Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios, Loutraki, Greece, edition 2006).* "St. Patapios and his miracles," [Dr. Charalambos Busias, edition of Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios Loutraki 2004]* "Deltos of Miracles of our miraculous father St. Patapios" [Dr.Charalambos Busias, edition of Holy Monastery of Saint Patapios 4th Edition, Loutraki 2011]

*[http://www.immspartis.gr/?page_id=8758 Information about St Hipomoni from the Church of Sparta]*http://www.impantokratoros.gr/agiaypomoni.el.aspx *[http://www.globalusers.com/monastir_eng.htmSaint Patapios: his life, his miracles and his monastery]