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Saint Paraskevi of Iconium (also known as Paraskeva Pyatnitsa) is venerated as a Christian virgin martyr. According to Christian tradition, she was born to a rich family of Iconium . Her parents were Christian, and Paraskevi was named as such (the name means "Friday" in Greek ) because she was baptized on a Friday, the day of Christ's Passion .
Paraskevi was born in a village near Rome, likely during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD). Her parents, Agathon and Politia, were Christians of Greek origin, [1] and had prayed for many years to have a child.
The church was given a new dedication to St. Paraskeva. [4] While only 15 faithful attended the parish at its establishment, by the turn of 1929 and 1930 the Hola church was the seat of the region's largest Neouniate parish, comprising 1,879 people, more than half of all Neouniates. [ 6 ]
Wooden sculpture of St. Paraskeva. Late seventeenth - early eighteenth century Icon "Paraskeva Pyatnitsa" in a riza.The Urals, circa 1800. In the folk Christianity of Slavic Eastern Orthodox Christians, Paraskeva Friday is a mythologized image based on a personification of Friday as the day of the week and the cult of saints Paraskeva of Iconium, called Friday and Paraskeva of the Balkans. [1]
Paraskeva of the Balkans [a] was an ascetic female saint of the 11th century. She was born in Epivates , near present-day Istanbul , and had visions of the Virgin Mary . After living in Chalcedon and Heraclea Pontica , she settled in a convent in the desert near the Jordan River .
Variations of the name include Petka, Paraskeva, Praskovia, Praskovie, Pyatnitsa, Pyetka, Paraskevoula, Paraschiva Voula, Vivi and Evi. Saints with the name (or variants) include: Paraskevi of Rome , or Parasceva in Latin, 2nd-century martyr, feast day: July 26
Icon of Great-Martyrs Theodore Tiron and Theodore Stratelates, 16th century, Monastery of the Transfiguration, Prilep (North Macedonia). A great martyr (also spelled greatmartyr or great-martyr) or megalomartyr (from Byzantine Greek μεγαλομάρτυς, megalomártus, from μέγας, mégas 'great' + μάρτυς, mártus 'martyr'; Church Slavonic: великомꙋ́ченикъ ...
A narodnyi dim was founded in 1924, and the wooden Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday continues to stand. [5] Sheshory was the site of a battle on 20 October 1950, during the anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.