The Virgin-Martyr of Christ, St. Helen, was the daughter of the Bekiary family and lived in the eighteenth century in Sinope, the oldest city of Pontus. Her parents brought her up with Christian values and instilled in her a love for Jesus Christ. She was fifteen years of age when her mother sent her out one day to buy embroidery thread from the shop in Kryonas. On the way, she passed the house of Ukuzoglu Pasha, the Turkish Governor of Sinope, who saw Helen from his window. The Pasha ordered that she be brought to him.
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