Holy Martyr Antonina, who suffered at Nicomedia.
St. Antonina was a Christian woman of Nicomedia who confessed Christ during the persecutions. Tradition relates that after torture she was sewn into a sack and cast into the sea.
She is commemorated on January 9.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Antonina of Nicomedia is commemorated on January 9. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on January 22 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Also commemorated on January 9
Eustratios the Wonderworker
Venerable, Ευστράτιος
Venerable Eustratios, abbot of the Augaros Monastery in Bithynia.
Peter of Sebaste
Hierarch, Πέτρος Σεβαστείας
St. Peter, Bishop of Sebaste, brother of St. Basil the Great.
Philip of Moscow
Hierarch, Φίλιππος Μόσχας
Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow, who rebuked Ivan the Terrible.
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