20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
- 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia died during the rule of Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in the early fourth century. A number of those executed, men, women, and children died by capital punishment, others were burned alive according to accounts.
These saints of the early Church are commemorated 28 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Byzantine Catholic and Latin Rite Catholic Churches. [ [http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=357 20,000 Martyrs burned in Nicomedia] from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America website]
See also
*Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
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