Kyranna of Thessaloniki (

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: Κυράννα; 1731-1751) is an

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and

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. Her feast day is on 28 February. She was allegedly killed by an Ottoman official, who unsuccessfully attempted to marry her and force her to convert to

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. She was born in 1731 in Ossa near

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in Ottoman Macedonia. She was buried somewhere outside the walls of Thessalonki. Her life was recorded by St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite in his ''New Martyrology''. In 2011 some of her

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s were discovered beneath floor slabs in the Church of the Archangels in Ossa.

References

* Le synaxaire, vie des saints de l'Église orthodoxe, Hiéromoine Macaire de Simonospétra, Thessalonique, Éditions To perivoli tis Panaghias, 1996. {{authority control 1731 births 1751 deaths 18th-century Greek people Saints of Ottoman Greece People from Thessaloniki Greek saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church 18th-century Greek women Virgin martyrs