Martyrius of Jerusalem

Holy Hierarch Martyrius of Jerusalem was born in Cappadocia, received monasticism in Egypt and in the year 457 came to Palestine. There he spent a time in the lavra of the Venerable Euthymius, then settled in a cave, on the site of today's Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, where a monastery later appeared. In 474 he was ordained a priest and assigned to serve at the Tomb of the Lord. Four years later he was chosen patriarch of Jerusalem and bore the service of primate until his death in 486.

The monastery built on the place where Martyrius settled in the cave, which bears his name, has been preserved in part to this day and is open to visitors as an archaeological site. Martyrius is not mentioned in the Greek synaxaria, but in the Palestinian-⁠Georgian calendar his commemoration is found on 13/26 April, on 25 June/8 July and, together with the Venerable Patriarch Zacharias, on 27 October/9 November.

He is commemorated on 8 July, in the new style, which is 25 June in the old style. His name is not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.