Avrikios

Holy Martyr Avrikios, in Greek Abrikios, was beheaded with the sword. In some synaxaria on this day the martyrs Abercius and Benjamin are mentioned, and it is possible that Avrikios is the same as the martyr Abercius, commemorated by the Greeks on 5 December. The Typikon of the Great Church of the tenth century preserves his commemoration. In the present Greek Menaion a synaxarion in iambic verse for this martyr has been preserved, at Matins, after the sixth ode of the canon. The commemoration of the saint was translated into Slavonic in the twelfth century, in the Prologue of Constantine of Mokisia, and in the sixteenth century entered, under 28 February, the Great Menaion Readers. The Greeks commemorate him on 28 February, and in the Russian calendar it falls on 13 March. His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.