Holy Martyrs
70 Martyrs
A group of seventy martyrs, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- October 12old style October 25
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
The 70 Martyrs are remembered on 12 October. The synaxarion says that they were put to the sword. They seem to be the same as the martyrs remembered on 30 September, since their verses are identical. Their names, the place and the year are not preserved in our sources.
Commemorated the same day October 12
Edwin of NorthumbriaRight-Believing · King of NorthumbriaOct 12
Cosmas the MelodistSaint · Bishop of MaiumaOct 12.jpg)
Maximilian of LorchHieromartyr · Bishop of CeleiaOct 12
Domnina of AnazarbusMartyrOct 12_01.jpg)
Michael KrasnotsvetovHieromartyr · PriestOct 12
EdistusMartyrOct 12
Tarasius of GlushitsaVenerable · Abbot in the Vologda regionOct 12- Theodosius of GlushitsaVenerableOct 12
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Nicholas MogilevskyConfessor · Metropolitan of Alma-AtaOct 12- 4966 Martyrs of AfricaHoly MartyrsOct 12
- AedhanSaintOct 12
- Alexander PozdeevskyHieromartyrOct 12