ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 13th of August WELCOME! EUDOCIA, EMPRESS A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) The Greeks consecrate a pious memorial to an empress of that name. This can be none other than the wife of Emperor Theodosius II. She was the daughter of the philosopher Leontius (according to others of Heraclitus) of Athens and was actually called Athenais. Of rare physical beauty, and carefully cultivated by her father, he bequeathed her just 100 pieces of gold, assuming that she would make her fortune through her qualities. The entire inheritance thus went to her brothers. Having unsuccessfully tried to dispute this with them, she finally left the area and went to Constantinople instead. In A.D. 424 (or 421), she was instructed in Christianity by the Patriarch Atticus there and then baptised, whereupon she received the name Eudocia. Later she became the wife of Emperor Theodosius II, to who...