Holy Hieromartyrs
Modestus and Twenty-one Companions
The presbyter Modestus and twenty-one martyrs of Nicomedia, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.
Life
Modestus and Twenty-one Companions were martyrs of Nicomedia in Bithynia, saints of the undivided Church. The presbyter Modestus is named at their head.
They are known from the Syriac Martyrology of 411, the oldest martyr calendar of the East, preserved in a manuscript copied at Edessa in November 411 from a Greek original. It commemorates them on 13 March, by the Julian calendar (old style): Modestus, presbyter and martyr, and twenty-one other martyrs. The names of the others and the circumstances of their suffering have not survived.
Commemorated the same day March 13
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Cassian the RecluseVenerable · Recluse of the Kiev CavesMar 13- Gerald of MayoVenerableMar 13
Mochoemoc of LiathmoreVenerable · Abbot of LiathmoreMar 13- Africanus of CarthageMartyrMar 13
- Alexander of MacedoniaMartyrMar 13
- Alexander of PydnaMartyrMar 13
- AltheusSaintMar 13
- Ansovinus of CamerinoSaint · Bishop of CamerinoMar 13
- CoincheandSaintMar 13