ON ST. ANTHUSA AND HER TWELVE SERVANTS, MARTYRS
CommentaryAnthusa, Martyr (S.) Twelve of her servants, Martyrs
G. H.
The Greeks in the Great Menaea on the twenty-second of February have this: Te aute hemera he hagia Anthousa, kai hoi dodeka autes oiketai xiphei teleiountai.
Eunous epheures, Anthousa, tous oiketas, Xiphei thanouse synthanotas soi xiphei.
"On the same day, St. Anthusa and her twelve servants meet their end by the sword.
You found your servants well-disposed, Anthusa, Who, as you died by the sword, died with you by the sword."
Maximus Cytheraeus transcribes the Menaea. The rest is hidden. Various saints named Anthusa are venerated on other days: on the twenty-second of August, Anthusa with two of her household, Carissimus and Neophytus, who were both struck by the sword under the Emperor Valerian, but Anthusa herself, as is read in the same Menaea, en eirene to theo to pneuma paretheto, "gave up her spirit to God in peace" -- who is a different person from this Martyr who was killed by the sword.