Martyr
Ten Virgins of Nicomedia
A group of ten virgins of Nicomedia, commemorated together, from around the year 286.
- Feast
- December 31old style January 13
- Reposed
- 2863rd century
- Place
- Nicomedia
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
The Ten Virgins of Nicomedia are commemorated on 31 December (new style, the Greek calendar) as holy martyrs. According to the synaxarion they suffered at Nicomedia, perhaps in the time of Maximian (286 to 305), when a multitude of Christians were put to death in that city.
Their eyes were put out, then their bodies were flayed, and so they gave up their spirits to God. A verse speaks of the twofold contest, the piercing of the eyes and the flaying, of the ten virgins, a chorus of twice five. Their names are not preserved.
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