Adrian

Holy Martyr Adrian suffered at Megara in Greece, together with Polyeuctus, Plato and George. They are commemorated on 1 February (new style).

It is not known when or how they died. Their tombs and holy relics were discovered at Megara between 1600 and 1670, during the Turkish occupation, by a Megarian named Oikonomou: workmen digging for a building felt an unusual warmth under their feet, and beneath a marble slab with the saints' names they found the relics. Some thieves stole them and fled to the Peloponnese. Oikonomou took the slab to Constantinople and told the Patriarch what had happened. At the place of the discovery stands today the church of the martyrs. It is supposed either that they were persecuted at Serres and fled to Megara, or that they died at Megara as soldiers.