Euphrosyne of Polatsk

Euphrosyne Of Polatsk


Euphrosyne (also Eŭfrasińnia, Efrasinnia) of Polotsk (or Polatsk, Połack) (Belarusian: Эўфрасі́ньня По́лацкая) (1110–1173) was the granddaughter of a prince of Polotsk, Vseslav, and daughter of Prince Svyatoslav of Polotsk. She is one of the 15 patron saints of Belarus, whose lives are celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church of Belarus, on the first Sunday after Pentecost, a feast that was instituted in the year of her canonisation in 1984.

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