Christodoulos

Saint Christodoulos the New Martyr suffered at Patras, in Achaia, on Palm Sunday of the year 1821, together with Saint Anastasia. Christodoulos was fourteen years old and was the only believer in a Christian family in which the mother and the two daughters had renounced their faith. Anastasia, of the same age, was the servant of the family and strengthened him in spirit. The event was recorded by an eyewitness, the historian Pouqueville, consul of France at Patras, who adds that others suffered with them.

The saints are commemorated on 16 April and on 3 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece), and according to another source their memory falls on the Tuesday of Bright Week.