26 March - Saint Larissa lived in the 4th century, died a martyr in Crimea in 375.
Larissa and her companions were gathered in a tent to celebrate the Eucharist when the Gothic king Athanaric brought an idol and enjoined the group of Christians to come and worship it. Some accepted and were spared, but Larissa and twenty-six others refused. The king condemned Larissa and the twenty-six others who refused to perish burned alive at the stake. Later, the widow of another Gothic king, Gaatha, gathered the relics of the martyrs and took them to Syria before she too was martyred.
