Charalampos of Nicomedia

Holy Martyr Charalampos of Nicomedia is commemorated among the martyrs Eusebius, Charalampos, Romanus, Meletius (Teletius) and Christina, burned at Nicomedia. The calendar we rely on has them on 13 June (new style), but in most Byzantine calendars their commemoration is on 30 May: in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople of the end of the tenth century, in the Typikon of the Great Church of the ninth and tenth centuries, in the synaxaria of family B and in Peter's Synaxarion of 1249, whose source is of the eleventh century.

In the Byzantine verse synaxaria the martyrs are divided into two groups: the commemoration of Romanus and Meletius, beheaded with the sword, is on 30 May, and that of those who were burned, Eusebius and Christina, is moved to 31 May; Christina's name is omitted. In this form their commemoration entered the printed Greek Menaia and the Synaxaristes of Venerable Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain. In the Martyrology of Blessed Jerome, on 30 May the courtiers of Nicomedia are commemorated, so Archbishop Sergius (Spassky) supposed that those who suffered were among the Christians of the court whose executions and tortures took place after the two fires in Diocletian's palace in Nicomedia (303). But Delehaye, relying on the Calendar of Carthage, considers that Nicomedia arose by the distortion of the name of the African province Numidia. The Patmos manuscript of the Typikon of the Great Church (ninth to tenth centuries) specifies that the martyrs were burned in a church.

According to the Synaxarion of Constantinople, the Jerusalem manuscript of the Typikon of the Great Church (tenth century) and Peter's Synaxarion, the synaxis in honour of the martyrs was held in the church of the Great Martyr Euphemia, near the church of Saint Laurence in Petria; according to the Patmos manuscript, the church of Saint Euphemia was in the Dexiokratiana quarter. The martyrs are not in the present calendar of the Russian Church.