Orthodox saints and name days on December 28

Name days on December 28

Domna

Saints and feasts of December 28

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  Twenty Thousand Martyrs of Nicomedia

  Martyr, Είκοσι Χιλιάδες

  The Twenty Thousand Holy Martyrs of Nicomedia suffered at the beginning of the fourth century, in the great persecution under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian. According to tradition, a vast multitude of Christians had gathered in the church of Nicomedia for the feast of the Nativity when the building was surrounded; commanded to sacrifice to the idols, they refused as one, and the church was set alight, the faithful within perishing in the flames with prayer on their lips.

• Indes, Gorgonius and the Martyrs of Nicomedia

  Martyr, Ίνδης, Γοργόνιος, Πέτρος, Ζήνων, Δωρόθεος, Μαρδόνιος

  These holy martyrs suffered at Nicomedia in the great persecution of Diocletian, together with the multitude of Christians burned in the church of the city. Several of them, including Gorgonius, Peter and Dorotheus, were officials of the imperial palace who confessed Christ openly; the priest Glycerius, the deacon Migdonius and the eunuch Indes were put to death with them in various ways.

• Domna of Nicomedia

  Holy Woman, Δόμνα

  The holy martyr Domna was a pagan priestess of the imperial palace at Nicomedia who came to faith in Christ through reading the Scriptures. Escaping the palace, she lived for a time in a monastery and among the Christians of the city, and after the burning of the church she was seized and beheaded.

  Name days: Domna

• Simon the Myrrh-gusher

  Venerable, Σίμων ο Μυροβλήτης

  Venerable Simon was a hermit of Mount Athos in the thirteenth century. Tradition relates that he saw a star shining night after night above a great rock and, understanding it as a sign, founded upon it the monastery of the Nativity of Christ, now called Simonopetra.

• Secundus the Martyr

  Martyr, Σεκούνδος

  The holy martyr Secundus is remembered by the Greek Synaxarion on this day. Tradition records that he confessed Christ and was perfected by the sword.

• Ignatius of Loma

  Venerable, Ιγνάτιος της Λόμα

  Venerable Ignatius was a Russian monk of the sixteenth century who founded a hermitage at Loma in the region of Yaroslavl, where he lived in poverty and prayer. He reposed in peace in 1591.