Alexander and Antonina

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St. Alexander Patriarch of Constantinople was, as they say, “apostolikois charismasi lamprynomenos”. As a senior yet, distinguished for his great piety, virtue and goodness of. In D & # 039; Ecumenical council, held in Nicaea in Bithynia, the then Patriarch of the elected representative. And when the meeting was denounced Arius, Alexander, although elder 70 years, was touring in Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly and the rest of Greece, to teach and communicate the correct doctrines of the Synod of Nicaea decisions.
The Holy Martyr Antonina came from Nice in Bithynia and lived during the times of the emperor Maximian (286-305 AD). Being a Christian, manifested in Maximian, when left for Nice and pleaded with the opinion boldness Christ. That & # 039; this tortured and taken to prison. Once they lured her from prison, the pressured by force to deny Christ. The Saint refused and remained constant in the faith. Then the executioners hanged and skinned the side. Then placed it on a glowing grill, but after this ordeal she remained unharmed. Then they put her in a sack, threw into the lake of Nice, which found the martyr’s death and received the crown of martyrdom.