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The Holy Martyrs two darkness (20,000) in Nicomedia in the church burned, and others there, outside the church, who suffered, namely, Zenon the governor, beheaded, Mygdonius, buried alive in the ground, Indis the eunuch, Gorgonia and Peter, thrown into the sea and 3 holy virgins: Agathia, Domna and Theophilus During the winter of 302–303, when negotiations and conferences took place in Nicomedia between Diocletian, who did not want general bloodshed, but wanted to limit himself to a decree prohibiting the confession of the Christian faith only by those serving at his court and in the regiments, and Galerius, who insisted on the need for a general, strict decree against all Christians, then, finally, this latter opinion prevailed and a few days before Easter he came out a decree that ordered the destruction of Christian churches, the burning of books and the deprivation of Christians of all civil rights and positions. Then, as some writers claim, on the very night of Easter the church in Nicomedia was burned, in which up to 20,000 Christians died at that time. This event marked the beginning of the most severe persecution of Christians, which lasted about ten years, almost until the accession of Emperor Constantine the Great. St. The Church glorifies these numerous martyrs in the following way: “Passion-bearers of the Lord, blessed is the land that has drunk with your blood, and holy is the village that has received your bodies, in the funeral feast you have conquered the enemy and preached Christ with boldness: He who is good, pray to be saved, we pray, to our souls” (Trop.). “Solid in soul according to holy faith, having received two dark sufferings by fire, the sufferer cried out to the One born of the Virgin: accept our burnt offerings for You, like the gifts of the Persian kings - gold, and myrrh and frankincense, Eternal God!” † Representation of Rev. Ignatius Lomsky Rev. Ignatius laid the foundation for monastic life in the Kirillov Belozersky Monastery; then he labored in 60 verses. from Vologda, near the former city of Lomsk, and here he founded the Spasskaya Hermitage, which for a long time was called the Ignatius Spasskaya Hermitage, and then from 1673 the Lomovsky Monastery and the Verkholomskaya Hermitage. The lover of silent life, leaving the management of the founded desert to one of his disciples, withdrew from it to the bank of the river. Sarah to the Vadozhskaya volost and lived here as a hermit. When adherents of monastic life gathered here too, he built for them the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, and thus the Vadozhskaya Hermitage was founded. The Monk Ignatius rested from his labors on December 28, 7100 = 1591. His relics rest hidden in the closed Vadozhskaya hermitage of the Vologda diocese 369. RKP. Saints. Swedish about mon. 74. East. Hier. VI, 1022.