Martyr
Dracontius
A martyr commemorated with Saints Achilleus and Nereus.
Life
Saint Dracontius the Martyr is commemorated on 12 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Dracontius, Achilleus and Nereus. Another entry groups Pancras, Achilleus and Nereus, and on the same day the martyr Domitilla is also remembered. The English calendar lists on that day also a Dracontius, bishop of Nicaea, without saying whether he is the same.
The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his suffering.
Commemorated the same day May 12
Epiphanius of SalamisSaint · Archbishop of Salamis in CyprusMay 12
Pancras of RomeMartyr · of RomeMay 12
Germanus of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleMay 12
Rictrude of MarchiennesVenerable · Abbess of Marchiennes AbbeyMay 12
CrispoldusSaint · Bishop of BettonaMay 12
Simeon of VerkhoturyeRighteous · Patron of the UralsMay 12
Dionysius of RadonezhVenerable · Archimandrite of the Trinity LavraMay 12
Anthony MedvedevVenerable · Superior of the Lavra of Saint SergiusMay 12- John the VlachNew MartyrMay 12
Philip of AgiraHieromartyr · Priest of SicilyMay 12- Theodore the AsceticVenerable · AsceticMay 12
AchilleusSaintMay 12