Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, CallinicusMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd century)Martyr · 3rd century
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The year given is the 3th century.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 27 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.