The Eight Holy Martyrs of Caesarea in Palestine.
The Greek synaxarion for March 24 commemorates eight martyrs of Caesarea in Palestine who confessed Christ during the persecutions and were put to death together. Their names have not been preserved.
The Church honors them as one company on this day.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Eight Martyrs of Caesarea is commemorated on March 24. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on April 6 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on March 24
Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia
Hierarch, Αρτέμων
Hieromartyr Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia.
Name days: Artemon
Artemon of Laodicea
Hierarch, Αρτέμων ο Ιερομάρτυς
Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea in Syria.
Parthenios III of Constantinople
Hierarch, Παρθένιος Γ΄
Hieromartyr Parthenios III, Patriarch of Constantinople, hanged by the Ottomans.
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