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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 of Perge (died 220), see Theodore, Philippa and companions; 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Theodora of Alexandria (Greek: Θεοδώρα Άλεξανδρείας) was a saint and martyr who lived during the 5th century in Alexandria, during the reign of Emperor Zeno. [1]
Theodore Gabras (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαβρᾶς) was a Byzantine governor in the Pontus who was involved in a minor unsuccessful rebellion against the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos around the year 1091. He is an Eastern Orthodox martyr whose feast day is celebrated on 2 October. [1]