Her birtn 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.