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Kassia

Byzantine composer
Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most... Wikipedia
Born: 810 AD, Constantinople
Died: 865 AD (age 55 years), Kasos, Greece
Canonized: Pre-congregation
Feast: 7 September
Venerated in: Eastern Orthodox Church; Catholic Church; Eastern Catholic Churches; Anglican Communion