iragneda, equal to the apostles, who baptized anastasia. the thief of god was born in the beginning xix century in the family of polovsky prince george and princess sofia. from the life of the saint it is known that she devoted the years of her adolescence to reading the holy scriptures, the creation of the holy fathers. she had such diligence in learning that even her father was surprised. the fame of the wisdom and beauty of predslava spread far beyond the borders of the polotsk land. upon reaching adulthood, predslava did not want to get married. feeling a burning desire to devote herself entirely to serving the lord, she secretly, at the age of 12 , went to one of the monasteries, in which the abbess... was her dear aunt, the young princess’s intentions to leave the world at first brought the abbess into a thrill of embarrassment, she began to persuade her niece to abandon her plan, but after a conversation with pretslava she was surprised at the intelligence of the fateful woman, her love for god, and realized that the lord himself was