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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Bernice of Antioch

A martyr honored at Antioch, of whom little is known.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
April 14old style April 27
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Bernice of Antioch was the daughter of Domnina and the sister of Saint Prosdoce. According to Eusebius and Saint John Chrysostom, in the persecution of Diocletian, to keep their chastity from the soldiers who had seized them, she and her sister, with their mother, drowned in a river. She is also called Berenice or Veronica. Commemoration on 14 April by the Roman calendar (new style).

Commemorated the same day April 14