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 a Christian church, 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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