Adrian the New of Corinth

Saint Adrian the New of Corinth suffered at Corinth, around the year 251. He is commemorated on 17 April, and sometimes on 16 April. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The pagans forced him to enter their temple, but Adrian overturned the altar with the offerings placed on it. For this act he was put to various tortures: he was beaten with rods, his jaw was broken, his teeth were knocked out, and then he was thrown into a furnace.

His short life was translated into Slavonic in the twelfth century, in the Prologue of Constantine of Mokisios. In the first half of the fourteenth century it was translated again, apparently by Serbs on Athos, in the Verse Prologue and in the service Menaia. In Rus it became known from the end of the fourteenth century, and in the sixteenth century it was entered under 17 April in the Great Menaia of Saint Macarius.