Martyr
Nicholas
Martyr of Constantinople
A martyr at Constantinople, commemorated together with Priscus and Martin in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- December 7old style December 20
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Constantinople
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Nicholas suffered at Constantinople and is commemorated on 7 December (new style) in the Greek synaxarion, together with Priscus and Martin.
Priscus died a martyr of hunger; Martin was cut to pieces with an axe; and Nicholas, ordered to sacrifice to idols, refused and was given to the fire. A verse says that because he did not sacrifice to demons, he was himself sacrificed in the fire. The feast of the three is kept near the wall of Blachernae. In the same company Dometius and Neophytus are also named.
Commemorated the same day December 7
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