Venerable Euphraxia (Eupraxia) of Constantinople, Tabennisi, the Younger

Venerable Euphraxia of Constantinople was born around 383 into a noble family: her father Antigonus was a Constantinopolitan senator related to Emperor Theodosius the Great. After her father's early death, the saint's mother — also named Euphraxia and separately venerated as Venerable Euphraxia the Elder — took her seven-year-old daughter to Egypt, to the Thebaid, where both were drawn to the monastic life of a women's convent. The young Euphraxia was raised in that convent and practiced monastic labors from childhood. On reaching adolescence, she formally renounced by letter a noble marriage arranged for her in the world, and distributed her rich inheritance to the Church and the needy. She practiced strict fasting (eating once a week), unquestioning obedience, and unceasing prayer; by age 25, according to the sources, she was granted the gift of healing — curing a possessed woman and a paralyzed child. She died peacefully at age 30 around 413. Her memory is kept on July 25/August 7.

NOTE: the entry's original structured dates (272-337) were an erroneous contamination with dates from the era of Emperor Constantine the Great (a known systemic bug in the database tied to the placename "Constantinople") and have been corrected to the accurate dates (c. 383-413), which match the bio text already present. The new-style date has also been corrected: August 8→August 7 (the correct conversion for July 25 O.S.).