St. Anastasia is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass, and commemorated by the Roman Church on December 25 and December 22^nd in the East. St. Anastasia was a spiritual child of St. Chrysogonus. Both died as martyrs during the  Diocletian persecution in the fourth century - perhaps in the  year 304 A.D.

St. Anastasia was a Roman lady of noble descent. Her father  was a noble pagan; but her mother, who was a Christian, caused her to be baptized in her infancy, and secretly reared her in sentiments of Christian piety, in which she made great progress.

St. Anastasia had been married to a noble Roman, named Publius, who was a pagan; he loved his wife much, but having discovered her acts of piety, and that she was a Christian, from a loving husband he became a cruel tyrant, confined her to the house, and treated her like a slave. St. Anastasia, however rejoiced that she could suffer for the love of Jesus Christ.

Publius, her cruel husband, having been appointed by the emperor ambassador to the King of Persia, gave orders to his workers that they should mistreat his wife during his absence and eventually kill her before his return. Unfortunately, Publius met with anuntimely death upon his  journey. While St. Anastasia, inflamed with the love of God, occupied her time in consoling and succoring the Christians, particularly those who were in prison, who she encouraged to suffer for the faith. Having heard of the arrest of St. Chrysogonus, her spiritual father, St. Anastasia hurried to his prison and rendered him great assistance, by reason of her extraordinary works of charity before he was beheaded by order of Diocletian on November 24 in the year 303.

St. Anastasia continued her mission to the prisoners. One day upon an errand of charity, and having found that all the holy confessors had been butchered by order of the emperor, she wept bitterly. When officers of the court asked why she wept, she replied "I weep because I have lost my brethren, who have been cruelly put to death." She was thence arrested and brought first before the prefect, Florus, then to the emperor Diocletian and finally to the pontiff Upian, who tirelessly tried to convince her to deny the Christian faith, but without succcess. Upian having used all his arts of persuasion in vain, threatened to kill her in three days. To this threat St. Anastasia replied: "They are three too many; thou mayest imagine them already past. I am a Christian, and am anxious to die for Jesus Christ. From me thou shalt never get any other answer." She was then starved in prison, but she continued to live without food. Florus the prefect ordered her to be put on board a ship with 120 idolaters - the ship was bored with holes and was supposed to sink. The ship soon filled with water, but instead of sinking went ashore. This miracle effected the conversion of all the persons on board, who afterwards had the glory of suffering martyrdom for Jesus Christ.  St Anastasia was then conducted to the island of Palmarola, under sentence of death; and she consummated her triumph in the flames.  A Christian lady obtained her body, and

gave it honorable burial near Zara, in Dalmatia; but about the year 460, under the

Emperor Leo, her relics were transferred to Constantinople and placed in thecelebrated

church of the Resurrection, called The Anastasia.  St. Anastasia has been venerated

at Rome since the 5th century.