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A maiden of noble family at Heraclea in Thrace who openly confessed Christ before the idols, endured many torments by the help of God, and received the crown of martyrdom under Antoninus.
The Holy Virgin-Martyr Glyceria of Heraclea
Saint Glyceria was a virgin-martyr of the second century who suffered for Christ at Heraclea in Thrace during the reign of the emperor Antoninus (138-161). Born into an illustrious family - her father Macarius having been a high-ranking Roman official - she embraced Christianity as a young woman and, when commanded to sacrifice to the idols, openly confessed Christ before the pagan assembly.
The synaxarion relates that she endured many torments by the help of God: fire that would not burn her, stones that would not strike her, and wounds healed in prison by an angel. Her steadfastness moved her jailer to faith and his own martyrdom, and she received the crown of martyrdom when she was given to wild beasts. Her relics were glorified by a flow of healing myrrh, and she is commemorated on May 13.
Her prison-keeper, Laodicius, having seen the saint healed of her wounds, at first did not recognize her and, fearing she had escaped, was about to take his own life until she stopped him. Shaken by the miracle, he believed in Christ and asked her prayers that he too might suffer for the faith; he was beheaded, becoming a martyr alongside her.
Region (Heraclea in Thrace) mapped to Constantinople, the nearest controlled term.