Martyr 2nd century
Martyr Melitine of Marcianopolis
Also known as Melitine · Melitina of Marcianopolis
A Christian woman of Marcianopolis in Thrace who destroyed pagan idols and converted others before suffering martyrdom under Antoninus Pius.
Feast Day
September 16
Also Oct 29
Their life
A Christian woman of Marcianopolis in Thrace who destroyed pagan idols and converted others before suffering martyrdom under Antoninus Pius.
Notes
Oct 29 is her commemoration in Greek usage (Great Synaxaristes). Her relics were carried toward Macedonia by the Christian Acacius and buried on Lemnos, where he too was buried beside her.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints