Byzantinus

Holy Martyr Byzantinus is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 15 September (new style), among the martyrs Byzantinus, Maximus, Nicetas the Goth and those with him, and Porphyrius.

The synaxarion knows Nicetas the Goth well: of the Gothic people settled beyond the Danube, in the time of Constantine the Great, taught the faith from childhood by the Gothic bishop Theophilus, he stood unshaken before the governor Athanaric, who broke his bones and threw him into the fire. The fire spared the body, which a pious Christian took and kept in a casket. Other martyrs suffered together with Nicetas. For Byzantinus the sources consulted contain no particulars of his own.