Laura of Constantinople

This article is about the Saint of Constantinople. For other uses, see Saint Laura (disambiguation).

Saint Laura of Constantinople (died 1453) was a Catholic nun who lived in Constantinople.

Saint Laura of Constantinople
Born	1400 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	29 May 1453
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Feast	29 May

Life

Her birth name was Theodolinde Trasci. She was born in Greece into a noble family: her father was a Latin knight named Michael and her mother was Albanian.

After she became a nun in Constantinople, she changed her name into Laura of Saint Peter, eventually rising to become an abbess.^[1] She was martyred by the Ottoman Turks who took Constantinople on 29 May 1453. They scalded her to death with the other 52 sisters of her convent.^[2]

Her feast day is on 29 May.^[3]