20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
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The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia died in Nicomedia in Bithynia 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, while others were burned alive in christian churh 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.[1]
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- ^[dead link] 20,000 Martyrs burned in Nicomedia from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America website
Orthodox Church in America, 28 December
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