Holy Martyrs
Forty Thousand Martyrs
A multitude of forty thousand martyrs, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 28old style March 13
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
The Forty Thousand Martyrs are remembered on 28 February. The sources say that they were burned by the Mamluks in the thirteenth century. Their names, the place and the circumstances are no longer known.
Commemorated the same day February 28
Romanus of CondatVenerable · Hermit of the JuraFeb 28.jpg)
Nestor of MagydosHieromartyr · Bishop of MagydosFeb 28
Kyranna of ThessalonicaNew Martyr · Martyr of ThessalonicaFeb 28
Nicholas Salos of PskovFool-for-Christ · Fool for Christ of PskovFeb 28
Basil the ConfessorVenerable · Byzantine monkFeb 28.jpg)
Marina and CyraHoly Venerables · Nuns of SyriaFeb 28- NymphasApostle · One of the SeventyFeb 28
- Leo of CappadociaVenerable · Ascetic of CappadociaFeb 28
- AvrikiosMartyrFeb 28
- BarsusSaint · Bishop of DamascusFeb 28
- Cairalius, Pupulius, Gaius and SerapionHoly MartyrsFeb 28
Cyra of BeroeaVenerableFeb 28