Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of SamosataHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Samosata.
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.
- Martyrs Zeno and Zenas of PhiladelphiaMartyr
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 title places them at Philadelphia.
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.
- St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)Martyr life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Protomartyr Alban of Britain
By sheltering a hunted priest, Alban encountered a faith worth receiving; by taking the priest’s cloak, he also accepted the cost of protecting him.
- Era
- Roman Britain; date disputed, perhaps third or early fourth century
- Region
- Verulamium, modern St Albans, England
- Category
- Protomartyr of Britain
- Feast
- June 22
- Anastasia the Serbian
What is known
Kept in the Greek tradition.
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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 22 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 5 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.