Domnina of Syria
5th century ascetic
Saint Domnina of Syria (Greek: Δομνίνα Συρίας) also known as Domnina the Younger, was a 5th-century ascetic. Her name is mentioned in the Byzantine Synaxarium. and according to Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, Domnina was born to a rich Syrian family.
Life
She became a disciple of Saint Maron.
As a young woman she constructed a straw-covered hut in the garden of her mother's house, located in Cyrrhus near Antioch.
She passed all of her life there, to the point where she became extremely thin. She only ate lentils soaked in water and went to church in the morning and in the evening. Domnina covered her face in a veil so that no one could see her face. She had 250 female followers, who passed the time doing manual labor and carding wool.
Theodoret writes, in his Religious History (chap.
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