Frithareik

Frithareik was a Gothic martyr of the 4th century, known only from the old Gothic calendar.

A fragment of a calendar in the Gothic language prescribes, for 23 October, the remembrance of "the many martyrs among the Gothic people, and of Frithareik". Beyond this line nothing is known of him, neither his life nor the manner of his death. Other sources record two waves of persecution of Gothic Christians in the 4th century, in 347 and 348 under Aoric and from 367 to 378 under Athanaric, but it is not said in which of them he suffered. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church.