Martyr
Demosthenes
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 Demosthenes is counted among those who suffered together with the twenty thousand martyrs burned at Nicomedia in the year 302, alongside Democles and Democritus. He is remembered on 28 December, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). Our sources say nothing of his life before his martyrdom.
Commemorated the same day December 28
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