Euphrosyne of Alexandria

About Euphrosyne of Alexandria

The anonymous Life tells of a woman who rejects a marriage arrangement, enters a monastery in disguise as Smaragdus, and is later recognized by her father. Critical scholarship dates the composition probably to the late sixth century or soon after and treats its fifth-century setting as alleged. The OCA preserves the story and its September 25 commemoration; these sources establish a literary and liturgical memory, not an independently verified personal chronology.