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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Ammonius, Diphilus and Matrona

Martyrs of Nicomedia, saints of the undivided Church, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
November 17old style November 30
Era
unknown
Place
Nicomedia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Ammonius, Diphilus and Matrona were martyrs of Nicomedia in Bithynia, saints of the undivided Church.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates them on 17 November, by the Julian calendar (old style), at Nicomedia: two men and a woman, Matrona. The Latin Hieronymian Martyrology, of the same origin, names Ammonius at Nicomedia, Diphilus in Asia and the virgin Matrona Thecla. No other account survives.

Commemorated the same day November 17