The life of St Xenia of Rome
She made her way first to the island of Kos and then to Mylasa in Asia Minor, where she found the head of a monastery of the Apostle Andrew and asked him to help her and her companions settle there; it was at this point that she took the new name Xenia, meaning stranger, deliberately setting aside the identity and inheritance she had left behind. At Mylasa she bought land, built a church dedicated to the martyr Stephen, and founded a monastery for women, guided in her own ascetic life, tradition says, by counsel she received from the Palestinian elder Euthymius. The local bishop, recognizing her manner of life, made her a deaconess, and she became known in the years that followed as a benefactress to the poor, a comfort to the grieving, and a guide toward repentance for those who sought her out. She died in 450 while at prayer, and later generations remembered that something like a wreath of light was seen over her monastery on the night of her death, though that detail belongs to the Church's own memory of her rather than to any documented record.
