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Martyr

Olympias

A woman martyr of Persia, honored by the undivided Church.

Feast
April 15old style April 28
Era
3rd century
Place
Persia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Olympias suffered in Persia, in the time of the Emperor Decius (249-251), together with Saint Maximus. The Greek synaxarion preserves no other details of their life or the manner of their death.

They are commemorated together on 15 April, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.

Commemorated the same day April 15