Alexander of Constantinople

Saint Alexander of Constantinople was beheaded, together with Barbarus and Acolouthus, for preaching Christianity. The time and place of their martyrdom are not known; perhaps they suffered at Constantinople, where their commemoration was kept. Sometimes Saint Maximus is also mentioned among them. They are commemorated on 27 May (14 May by the old calendar). Their names are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The commemoration of the holy martyrs was translated into Slavonic in the twelfth century, in the Prologue of Constantine of Mokisios. In the sixteenth century the commemoration was entered under 14 May in the Great Menaia.