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Saints Theodore Tyron and Theodore Stratelates in a fresco from Rila Monastery, Bulgaria. According to the Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, Saint Theodore the Martyr was a captain of the soldiers of the city of Setb, in the province of Asyut in Upper Egypt.
Theodore Stratelates (Ancient Greek: Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Στρατηλάτης, transl. 'the General' or 'Military Commander'; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲑⲉⲟⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ), also known as Theodore of Heraclea (Ancient Greek: Θεόδωρος Ἡρακλείας; AD 281–319), was a martyr and warrior saint in the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Nilles argued that this epithet was a later mistake and that, rather than being a recruit, Theodore's name had originally referenced his service in the Cohors Tyronum.) [1] [11] The saint is also distinguished as Theodore of Amasea, [1] [12] Theodore of Euchaita, [1] [13] and Theodore Martyr. The epithets are not generally needed, as Theodore ...
St. Theodore the Martyr. St. Theodore of Amasea or St. Theodore Tyron (died 306), military saint; St. Theodore of Heraclea or St. Theodore Stratelates (281-319), military saint; St. Theodorus of Tabennese (c. 314–368), disciple of Saint Pachomius; Mar Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350–428), Christian theologian, and Bishop of Mopsuestia
Murder of Martyrs Theodor the Varangian and his son John. Radziwiłł Chronicle. Theodore the Varangian and his son John (Russian: Феодор Варяг и сын его Иоанн, romanized: Feodor Varyag i syn yego Ioann; 10th century) are the names traditionally attributed to a Varangian Christian man from Greece and his young son living in Kiev, who were killed in a story recorded in ...
She clothed herself as a male, called herself "Theodore", and disguising herself as a eunuch, lived for the rest of her life as a monk at a monastery in the Thebaid. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] She practiced ascetism, did menial tasks, and prayed fervently to be forgiven by God and be restored to chastity. [ 5 ]
Saints Antonina and Alexander were Christian martyrs of 313, and they are saints whose acta are legendary. The story of the two is nearly identical to that of Saints Theodora and Didymus . The legend of Antonina and Alexander has the former being forced to a brothel (the penalty for women who refused to wed), where a Christian soldier named ...
On 18 May, the Roman Martyrology says: "At Ancyra, in Galatia, the martyr Saint Theodotus and the saintly virgins Thecusa, his aunt, Alexandra, Claudia, Faina, Euphrasia, Matrona and Julitta," etc. They are mentioned in all the menologies , and Theodotus has a special feast on 7 June.