Strator of Nicomedia

Holy Martyr Strator of Nicomedia, also called Stratonicus, was from Nicomedia in Bithynia and was torn in two between two trees, in the third century, together with the martyrs Seleucus, Cronides, Leontius and Serapion.

The holy martyrs Seleucus, Stratonicus, Cronides, Leontius and Serapion suffered for the Christian faith in the third century. Seleucus was from Galatia, Stratonicus from Nicomedia of Bithynia, and Cronides, Leontius and Serapion from Egypt. For confessing Christ, after cruel torments, they were put to death savagely. Cronides, Leontius and Serapion were bound hand and foot and thrown into the sea; the waves carried their bodies ashore, where the Christians buried them. Seleucus suffered in Galatia, where after many torments he was thrown with his wife to be devoured by beasts. Stratonicus, by order of the governor of Bithynia, after torments was tied to two bent tree trunks, and his body was torn in two.

He is commemorated on 22 and 26 September, and also on 9 September, in the new style.