Holy Martyrs
Theodota and Her Sons of Nicaea
The martyr Theodota and her sons of Nicaea, commemorated together.
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Life
Theodota and Her Sons of Nicaea were martyrs of Nicaea in Bithynia, remembered together on 2 August.
The Roman Martyrology says that at Nicaea in Bithynia was the martyrdom of Saint Theodota with her three sons. The eldest, named Evodius, confessing Christ with confidence, was first beaten with rods by order of Nicetius, ex-consul of Bithynia, and then the mother, with all her sons, was consumed by fire. We have no other data on the time of their martyrdom.
They are saints of the undivided Church, named in the Roman Martyrology; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. The information is scant.
Commemorated the same day August 2
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