The five hundred men and one hundred thirty women martyred at Nicomedia with Saint Juliana.
These holy martyrs were witnesses of the sufferings of St. Juliana of Nicomedia. Seeing her endurance, five hundred men and one hundred thirty women confessed Christ and were beheaded together with her.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Five Hundred Martyrs and One Hundred Thirty Women of Nicomedia is commemorated on December 21. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on January 3 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on December 21
Themistocles of Myra
Martyr, Θεμιστοκλής
Holy Martyr Themistocles of Myra in Lycia.
Name days: Themistoklis, Themistocles, Themis
Peter of Moscow
Hierarch, Πέτρος Μόσχας
Peter the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia, first hierarch of Moscow.
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