20K Martyrs of Nicomedia; Troparion, Tone II —
O athletes of the Lord,/ blessed is the ground which drank in your blood,/
and holy the habitations which have received your bodies,/ for in your contest
ye vanquished the enemy and preached Christ with boldness.// Entreat Him, we
pray, in that He is good, that our souls be saved.
Kontakion of the Martyrs, Tone II "The steadfast" —
Made steadfast in soul by faith,/ the twenty thousand holy athletes accepted
suffering by fire,/ crying out to Him Who was born of the Virgin:/ "O preeternal
God, accept us as wholeburnt offerings to Thee,// as thou didst accept the gold,
myrrh and frankincense from the Persian kings!"
Saturday after the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, including Glycerius, Zeno, Theophilus, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, Euthymius, and the virgins Agape, Domna, Theophila and others (302).
St. Cornelius, monk of Krypets Monastery in Pskov (1903).