SINCLETICA, saint. — Of Macedonian origin, born at Alexandria and died there about 400.
Having renounced marriage in order to consecrate herself to God, upon the death of her parents she distributed her very considerable inheritance among the poor and withdrew with her blind sister into an abandoned sepulchral cave, where, in the presence of a priest, she renewed her complete renunciation of the world and her definitive consecration to God. She would have wished to lead her life of prayer and penance in the greatest obscurity; but the fame of her virtues, soon spreading around, gathered under her direction a great number of persons, to whom she taught with great firmness and depth the duties of their state, and especially humility and trust in God. In the last years of her life, besides many vexations from the devil, she was tortured by a cancer of the mouth, which disfigured her and made the sight of her unbearable; yet she accepted everything with serenity and joy until death overtook her at the age of eighty-four. Feast, among the Greeks, on 4 January; in the Roman Martyrology, on 5 January.