Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Zlata of Meglen | |
Birth Date: | unknown |
Death Date: | 1795 |
Feast Day: | October 18 |
Venerated In: | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Birth Place: | Slatina Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Slatina Ottoman Empire |
Titles: | Great Martyr |
Saint Zlata of Meglen (Macedonian: Света Великомаченичка Злата Мегленска, Bulgarian: Света Великомъченица Злата Мъгленска, Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἁγία Χρυσή; died October 18, 1795) is an 18th-century Eastern Orthodox saint and new martyr.
Zlata was born in the eighteenth century in the village of Slatina, in the province of Meglen (today Chrysi, Greece), to a poor, peasant family with three other daughters. She died on October 18, 1796. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates her feast day on October 18; the Greek, the Russian, the Serbian and the Macedonian Orthodox Church Orthodox churches - on October 13. Her hagiography was written by Nicodemus the Hagiorite. In Bulgaria and North Macedonia Saint Zlata is often depicted as young woman, wearing a traditional folk costume. In Bulgaria, Saint Zlata is patron saint of all Bulgarians living abroad.