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Martyr

Domna

A woman martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
December 3old style December 16
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

The holy Martyr Domna is commemorated in the Greek synaxarion on 3 December, together with the holy Martyrs Agapius, Seleucus, Mamas, Indes and Glycerius and forty other martyrs. The synaxaria call them all the martyrs "in Sophianae".

The sources preserve very little about them. It is known only that they all confessed Christ and received the crown of martyrdom by the sword. Neither the exact place nor the year of their suffering is known, nor any further detail of Domna's life.

The Greek Great Synaxaristes notes that the memory of some of these martyrs is repeated on 28 December. On that day the Church honours the twenty thousand martyrs of Nicomedia and, with them, several sufferers bearing the same names, among them Indes, the priest Glycerius and the virgin Domna. The sources do not fully explain the link between the two commemorations.

The Church commemorates Saint Domna, together with her companions in martyrdom, on 3 December.

Commemorated the same day December 3