Anastasia, the name of several saints of the Roman and Greek churches. I. Anastasia the Eider was a martyr of the time of Nero, a pupil of St. Peter and St. Paul. Her festival day is April 15.

II. Anastasia the Younger, of an eminent Roman family, was brought up in the Christian faith by her mother Flavia, persecuted by her heathen husband Publius, and finally burned in Aquileia, in 303. Her day is Dec. 25.

III. Anastasia, the daughter of an eminent Greek family of Constantinople, attracted by her beauty the attention of the emperor Justinian. She resisted his dishonorable proposals and retired to Alexandria, where she lived for 28 years as a monk, her sex remain-ing unknown till her death in 567. Her day is March 10.