Nicephorus

Saint Nicephorus is commemorated on 25 October (new style, the Greek calendar) together with Saint Stephen. The synaxarion says that both suffered by being flayed alive. A verse plays on the crown, the stephanos, of Nicephorus, woven at the end of his torments.

The commemoration of the two martyrs is repeated on 8 February, where it is described as the tearing of their flesh. Place and time are not preserved.