Her hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history and the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates her feast day on 29 August.

[3][4] Her early life was profoundly affected by the Arab raids of the ninth and tenth century that devastated the coastal areas of the Aegean.

According to Gregory, a group of priests and devout people arrived at the communal grave around midnight and but by a miracle they were unable to roll the tomb stone away.

[11][1] It also embeds a short biography on Anthony the Confessor, archbishop of Thessalonica, and an anti-iconoclastic discourse spoken by him and addressed to Emperor Leo V the Armenian.

The author included many chronological indications about the saints life and appended to the biography additionally to the translation of her relics a list of posthumous miracles.

It seems that these compositions were part of her personal devotion and not meant for a wider audience which could indicate that a whole body of hymnography of female writers existed of which few would have known.

This is perhaps either to portray her as others remember her before she entered the nunnery aged 25 or perhaps to emphasize her purity as the beauty of her body and pretty face were associated with modesty and piety.