Hypomone

Holy Martyr Hypomone is known only by name. The place and time of her death are unknown. In synaxaria and other kinds of Byzantine calendars only the martyr's name is given.

In most manuscripts her commemoration is on 5 April (18 April, new style). In the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople, whose basic form dates from the end of the tenth century, it is on 9 April (22 April, new style), and in a synaxarion of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, on 10 April (23 April, new style).

A service to Saint Hypomone, composed by Venerable Theophanes the Branded, has survived in a liturgical Menaion of the Vatopedi monastery on Athos, of the tenth century. In the title of the canon she is called venerable. Her commemoration did not enter the printed Greek Menaia, nor the Synaxaristes of Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite, and it is absent from the present calendars of the Greek Churches and from the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.