Laura of Constantinople

This article is about the Saint of Constantinople. For other uses, see Saint Laura (disambiguation).

Saint Laura of Constantinople
Born	1400 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	29 May 1453
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Feast	29 May

Saint Laura of Constantinople (died 1453) was a Catholic nun who lived in Constantinople.

Life

Her birth name was Theodolinde Trasci. She was born in Greece into a noble family: her father was a Latin knight named Michael and her mother was Albanian.

After she became a nun in Constantinople, she changed her name into Laura of Saint Peter, eventually rising to become an abbess. ^[1] She was martyred by the Ottoman Turks who took Constantinople on 29 May 1453. They scalded her to death with the other 52 sisters of her convent. ^[2]

Her feast day is on 29 May. ^[3]

References

1. De Renzis N., Storia di Santa Laura da Costantinopoli nel quattrocentosettantacinquesimo anno della Sua morte, Tip. Editrice R. Riccio Cosenza 1925
2. Calvo S., Resumen de las prerrogativas del Orden de la Ssa Trinidad, Josef Longas Pamplona I p. 219
3. "May 29 – Saint Laura of Constantinople". 28 May 2018.