Saint Martha (Greek: Ἁγία Μάρθα; died 551) was the mother of Simeon Stylites the Younger.
[1] When her parents betrothed her to a young man, she seriously considered leaving home and withdrawing from the world.
However, John the Baptist is said to have appeared to her and advised her to do as her parents had arranged and marry the man to whom they had betrothed her.
The abbot placed a votive candle on her grave with the instruction that the light never be allowed to be extinguished.
Martha appeared to him saying that when the abbot burned a light on her grave, he was asking her to pray to the Lord for him.