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Martyr

Mamas

A martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
July 29old style August 11
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Mamas is commemorated together with the Holy Martyr Basiliscus. The Azbyka page says that the time and place of their martyric end are not known. Basiliscus was beheaded with the sword and in the Byzantine calendars is called an elder, while Mamas was drowned in the sea.

They are commemorated on 11 August, according to the Greek calendar. Their names are not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day July 29