Kallinik and 10 other martyrs

Kallinik and 10 other martyrs were, according to the Roman Martyrology, soldiers during the Byzantine-⁠Arab wars. On 20 August 636 the battle on the river Yarmouk ended formal Byzantine rule in Syria and Palestine, and in the summer of 637 the Arabs took Gaza. The commander Amr ibn al-⁠As ordered the soldiers defending it to be brought before him.

From Kallinik and his ten companions he demanded that they renounce their faith; because they refused, they were imprisoned, then taken to Jerusalem and executed at the gates of the city, in the year 638. Their liturgical commemoration is on 6 November. They are honoured as saints of the Church.