[1] and according to Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, Domnina was born to a rich Syrian family.

[2] As a young woman she constructed a straw-covered hut in the garden of her mother's house, located in Cyrrhus near Antioch.

[1] She only ate lentils soaked in water[2] and went to church in the morning and in the evening.

[2] She had 250 female followers, who passed the time doing manual labor and carding wool.

XXX in Patrologia Graeca), that Domnina acquired such a state of religious ecstasy that she could not speak without weeping as she was considered to have been inspired by the love of God.