Straton of Nicomedia

Holy Martyr Straton of Nicomedia suffered at Nicomedia around the year 303, together with the martyrs Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian.

The four attended the spectacles and taught the people to abandon the worship of idols, bringing many pagans to Christ. The governor, noticing that the spectacles had begun to empty, summoned the martyrs, who firmly confessed faith in Christ and were given to the beasts. The beasts did not touch them, and the martyrs were subjected to tortures and thrown into the fire († about 303).

Straton is commemorated on 30 August, in the new style.