Holy Martyrs
Twenty Thousand Martyrs
A multitude of twenty thousand martyrs, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.
Life
The Twenty Thousand Martyrs are remembered on 2 June. They believed in Christ through the Hieromartyr Erasmus, remembered on the same day, and were put to the sword. Relics of the twenty thousand martyrs are kept at the Theotokiou Monastery in Arta.
Commemorated the same day June 2
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Eugene I of RomeSaint · Bishop of RomeJun 2
Nikephoros the ConfessorSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleJun 2
BlandinaMartyrJun 2
Pothinus of LyonHieromartyr · Bishop of LyonJun 2
Nectarius of ConstantinopleSaint · Archbishop of ConstantinopleJun 2
Nicholas the PilgrimVenerable · Greek pilgrim in southern ItalyJun 2
John the New of SuceavaGreat Martyr · Martyr of Cetatea AlbăJun 2- Plato of ElisavetgradHieromartyrJun 2
- 38 MartyrsHoly MartyrsJun 2
- AdalgisVenerableJun 2
- Aedhan of Cluain DomhuilSaintJun 2
- Aemilia of LyonMartyrJun 2