Martyr
Peter of Crete
Disciple of Saint Athenogenes
A martyr from Crete, disciple of Saint Athenogenes, put to death at Pedachtoe near Sebaste in the 4th century.
Life
Holy Martyr Peter of Crete is commemorated on 16 July (new style) in the company of the ten martyrs who suffered with Holy Hieromartyr Athenogenes, a bishop who died in the year 311.
The other nine are Ammon, Antiochus, Hesychius, Theophrastus, Cleonicus, Maximinus, Patrophilus and Rhiginus, and Peter is called in the synaxarion the one from Crete. The sources consulted preserve no details of his life.
Commemorated the same day July 16
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