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Holy Martyr Domna 1/10/2013
The virgin Domna was priestess of the temple of the pagan gods within the palace of the Emperor Maximian. One day she came across the Acts of the Apostles and having read them she believed in Christ and hastened to Bishop Cyril to receive holy Baptism together with the eunuch Indes. Saint Cyril directed her to a female monastery, where the blessed Agathia was abbess. When the Emperor began to search for her, Agathia put male attire on her and sent her to a male monastery. At that time twenty thousand Christians were burned in the church by order of the Emperor Maximian. After that by Emperor’s order Saints Indes, Gorgonius and Peter were cast into the sea with heavy stones around their necks. The courtier Zeno who publicly condemned the Emperor for his idolatry was beheaded; Saint Theophilus, the deacon of Bishop Anthimus was stoned to death; Abess Agathia, sister Theophila and the palace officers Dorotheus, Mardonius and Migdonius were all put to death for Christ. One night as Domna was walking along the seacoast she saw fishermen hauling in their nets. At the time she was grieving after her companion Indes. The fishermen called her to help them and by divine Providence they recovered three bodies in which she recognized Saints Indis, Gorgonius and Peter. She took their bodies and buried them with devotion. When the Emperor learned that some boy guarded and incensed the tombs of the Christian martyrs ordered him to be beheaded. Saint Domna was seized and beheaded too and thus crowned with martyr’s wreath in the Heavenly Kingdom together with the other martyrs.
