Barbarus of Constantinople

Holy Martyr Barbarus of Constantinople is remembered together with Alexander and Acolutus. The three were beheaded for preaching Christianity. The time and place of their martyrdom are not known; they may have suffered at Constantinople, since that is where their memory was kept. Sometimes Saint Maximus is also mentioned among them.

The commemoration of the martyrs was translated into Slavonic in the twelfth century, in the Prologue of Constantine of Mokisia, and in the sixteenth century it entered the Great Menaion Reader under 14 May. Saint Barbarus is commemorated on 27 May, in the new style (14 May in the Greek calendar), but their names are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.