Martyr Unknown

Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence

Two martyrs shot with arrows for Christ; their biographical details are not preserved.

Feast Day
August 28
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Life

Diomedes and Laurence are commemorated together as martyrs on August 28 in the Eastern Orthodox calendar. Almost nothing of their lives survives: the synaxaria and liturgical calendars preserve them essentially as a name-pair attached to their feast, without a recorded birthplace, date, region, or vita.

The single concrete detail carried by the available sources is the manner of their death. They are described as having been shot with arrows after being tied to a tree, suffering martyrdom for their confession of Christ. Beyond this, no further biographical particulars have been handed down.

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A stub commemoration

Diomedes and Laurence appear in the August 28 commemorations of the Greek and wider Orthodox calendars, listed among other martyrs of the day such as Hermes of Rome, the 33 Martyrs of Nicomedia, and Susanna (Shushanik) of Georgia. In each calendar they are recorded only as names, with no accompanying account of their origin or trial.

They should not be confused with two better-known saints of nearby feasts: the martyr Diomedes the Physician, commemorated on August 16, and the martyr Laurence (Lawrence) of Rome, the archdeacon commemorated on August 10. The August 28 Diomedes and Laurence are a distinct pair whose biographical details are not preserved.

Notes

Stub; distinct from Diomedes the Physician (Aug 16) and Laurence of Rome (Aug 10).

Sources: GOARCH calendar; OCA / J. Sanidopoulos cross-check