Eudokia of Heliopolis

About Eudokia of Heliopolis

Eudokia is the woman remembered in the Eastern Orthodox calendar on March 1, distinct from the empress Aelia Eudocia. Her anonymous passion tells of a Samaritan woman who converts, enters religious life, and is eventually martyred, but its dialogue, visions, and chronology are hagiographic narrative rather than a contemporary record. The source versions disagree about whether she came from Samaria or was Samaritan by origin, and their dates conflict; both should remain unstated. A short biography can summarize the received story only with explicit attribution and without presenting its settings as established history.