Martyr
Mamas
A martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 3old style December 16
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Mamas of Sophianae was beheaded with the sword together with Agapius, Seleucus and forty other martyrs at Sophianae. The Azbyka page adds that in some synaxaria their commemoration is linked with that of the Saints Indes, Domna and Glyceria of Nicomedia. No other news of them is kept.
They are commemorated on 16 December, according to the Greek calendar. Their names are not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.
Commemorated the same day December 3
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