Holy Martyrs
38 Martyrs
Thirty-eight martyrs, honored together in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
Life
The 38 Martyrs are remembered on 2 June, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). According to the synaxarion they were thrown into a bath whose door was sealed, and their verses say that Christ, the door, was near them. Their names, the place and the year are not preserved in our sources.
Commemorated the same day June 2
Eugene I of RomeSaint · Bishop of RomeJun 2
Nikephoros the ConfessorSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleJun 2
BlandinaMartyrJun 2
Pothinus of LyonHieromartyr · Bishop of LyonJun 2
Nectarius of ConstantinopleSaint · Archbishop of ConstantinopleJun 2Nicholas the PilgrimVenerable · Greek pilgrim in southern ItalyJun 2
John the New of SuceavaGreat Martyr · Martyr of Cetatea AlbăJun 2- Plato of ElisavetgradHieromartyrJun 2
- AdalgisVenerableJun 2
- Aedhan of Cluain DomhuilSaintJun 2
- Aemilia of LyonMartyrJun 2
- AlbinaMartyr · Martyr of LyonJun 2