St. Peter of Nicomedia
Feast day: March 12
Death: 303
Saint Peter was Diocletian's valet cubicularius at Nicomedia. He had great pity for the Christian martyrs and shared their fate as one of the first victims of the last great persecution. The flesh was raked from his bones, salt and vinegar poured into the wounds, and finally he was roasted to death over a slow fire. The new calendar associates Peter of Nicomedia with Saints Gorgonius and Dorotheus, who were killed in the same persecution and who have their own feast day as well
Feast day: March 12
Death: 303
Saint Peter was Diocletian's valet cubicularius at Nicomedia. He had great pity for the Christian martyrs and shared their fate as one of the first victims of the last great persecution. The flesh was raked from his bones, salt and vinegar poured into the wounds, and finally he was roasted to death over a slow fire. The new calendar associates Peter of Nicomedia with Saints Gorgonius and Dorotheus, who were killed in the same persecution and who have their own feast day as well
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