**SINCLETICA, Saint.** — Born in Macedonia, she was born in Alexandria and died there around 400.
Having renounced marriage to consecrate herself to God, upon the death of her parents she distributed her considerable inheritance to the poor and withdrew with her blind sister to 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 wished to lead a life of prayer and penance in the greatest concealment; but the fame of her virtues, which soon spread around her, gathered a great number of people under her direction, to whom she taught with great firmness and depth the duties of their state, especially humility and trust in God. In the last years of her life, besides many vexations from the devil, she was afflicted by a cancer in her mouth, which disfigured her and made her appearance unbearable; yet she accepted all with serenity and joy until her death, which came to her at the age of 84. Her feast is celebrated among the Greeks on January 4; in the Roman Martyrology, on January 5.
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