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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Glycerius

Martyr of Nicomedia

A cleric and martyr at Nicomedia, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
December 21old style January 3
Era
4th century
Place
Nicomedia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Glycerius was a cleric, a priest, and suffered at Nicomedia in the time of the persecution of Diocletian, around the year 302. The Orthodox Synaxarion counts him among the twenty thousand martyrs of Nicomedia, commemorated on 28 December, while calendars that name him alone place him on 21 December. The sources at hand give no further details about him.

Commemorated the same day December 21