Nicholas of Mytilene

Nicholas of Mytilene is a new martyr linked with the island of Lesbos and the city of Mytilene, of whom nothing more is known than the name and place. He is commemorated on 16 January and died, according to tradition, on 16 January 1771. He has no known canonization.

The synaxaria do not mention him. The first to speak of him is the historian Chrysostomos Papadopoulos, who does not say where he took the report from. Papadopoulos writes that in that year Nicholas of Mytilene died a martyr, and that on 16 January 1771 the hieromartyr Damaskenos, an Athonite monk, died. Since the historian seems to distinguish the days of the two, Nicholas's exact date is uncertain; he is nevertheless placed on 16 January, as several contemporary sources do. On the same day the hieromartyr Damaskenos of Gambrovo was martyred by the Turks in Bulgaria.