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Martyr

Euphemia

A holy woman commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
November 19old style December 2
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Euphemia is commemorated on 19 November (new style, the Greek calendar) with her children, in a group of five martyrs together with Anthimus, Thalelaeus, Christopher and Pancharius. A verse asks Christ to receive the five athletes and to give them five crowns as the prize for their contests.

The synaxarion says that no details of their lives are known. Place and time are not preserved.

Commemorated the same day November 19