Christina of Nicomedia

Holy Martyr Christina of Nicomedia is commemorated among the martyrs Eusebius, Charalampos, Romanus, Meletius (Teletius) and Christina, burned at Nicomedia. In the calendar we rely on their day is 13 June (new style), but in most Byzantine calendars they are commemorated on 30 May, in the Synaxarion of Constantinople of the tenth century, the Typikon of the Great Church of the ninth to tenth centuries, the synaxaria of family B and the Synaxarion of 1249.

Scholars point out that in the Byzantine verse synaxaria the martyrs are divided into two groups: Romanus and Meletius, beheaded with the sword, on 30 May, and Eusebius and Christina, the burned, on 31 May; in that form the name of Christina is missing, and so the commemoration entered the printed Greek Menaia and the Synaxaristes of Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain. Archbishop Sergius (Spassky) supposed, from the Martyrology of Blessed Jerome, that those who suffered were among the Christians of the court of Nicomedia, killed after the two fires in Diocletian's palace (303), but Delehaye considers that Nicomedia comes from a distortion of the name of the African province Numidia. The Patmos manuscript of the Typikon of the Great Church says that the martyrs were burned in a church. The commemorative gathering was held in Constantinople, in the church of the Great Martyr Euphemia, near the church of Saint Laurence in Petria. The martyrs are not in the present calendar of the Russian Church.