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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

The Three Virgin Martyrs of Chios

Three virgin martyrs of the island of Chios, venerated in the Church of Greece.

Feast
June 9old style June 22
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

The Three Virgin Martyrs of Chios are three young women martyred by the sword on the island of Chios and honoured in the Church of Greece. The Greek synaxarion remembers them without giving their names and without other details of their lives, and commemorates them on 9 June, by the calendar of the Church of Greece.

Commemorated the same day June 9