70 Martyrs Slain with Rhipsime

The 70 Martyrs Slain with Rhipsime are seventy men who were hiding in the Ararat region of Armenia and who suffered together with Saint Rhipsime, with Gaiane and with the 32 virgin martyrs, in the time of Diocletian, according to the synaxarion in the year 292. Of Rhipsime the synaxarion says that she avoided Diocletian's wish to take her as his wife, that king Tiridates of Armenia ordered her to be found, and that she was killed with great cruelty near Ararat. The seventy are commemorated on 30 September, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). Their names are not preserved.