Martyr
Democles
A martyr commemorated with the twenty thousand martyrs burned in Nicomedia in 302.
- Feast
- December 28old style January 10
- Reposed
- 3024th century
- Place
- Nicomedia
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Democles is remembered on 28 December, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with the twenty thousand martyrs burned at Nicomedia in the year 302 and with Demosthenes and Democritus, who suffered with them. Our sources give no further details about him.
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