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Diomedes of Tarsus

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Saint Diomedes
Fresco of St. Diomedes at Hilandar Monastery, Mt. Athos.
Martyr
Born	Tarsus (modern-day Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey)
Died	between 298 and 311 AD Nicaea (modern-day İznik, Turkey)
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	16 August

Saint Diomedes of Tarsus (Diomede) (Greek: Διομήδης ό Ταρσεύς, d. between 298 and 311 AD) is venerated as a Greek Christian saint and martyr, one of the Holy Unmercenaries.^[1]

Life[edit]

Diomedes was born in Tarsus. He was a physician by profession and a zealous Christian evangelist. He traveled a good deal preaching the faith. When he arrived at Nicaea, Diocletian ordered him arrested. On route to Nicomedia, Diomedes paused to pray and then died. The soldiers took his head as proof he had been arrested.^[2] One source states, "It is said that when his head was taken to the emperor, that all were blinded, and only after his body has been returned and they had prayed, was their sight restored."^[3]

Named for him[edit]

His feast day is 16 August (O.S.). There is a fresco of him at the monasteryofHilandaronMount Athos, Greece.

The Diomede Islands off the coast of Alaska derive their name from this saint. Vitus Bering sighted the Diomede Islands on 16 August (O.S., 27 August N.S.) 1728, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of Saint Diomedes during the Nut Feast of the Saviour.

Saint Diomedes (II)[edit]

There is another Saint Diomedes who is celebrated on 2 September. With Julian, Philip, Theodore, Eutychian (Eutykhian), Hesychius (Heyschios), Leonides, Philadelphus (Philadelphos), Menalippus (Melanippos), and Pantagapes (Parthagapa) he was martyred at an unknown date and site. They suffered various forms of execution (burning at the stake, drowning, beheading, or crucifixion).

References[edit]

^ "Orthodox Saints and Feasts: The Holy Unmercenaries". Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2010-10-28.

^ "Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus, in Cilicia". oca.org. Orthodox Church in America.

^ "Archive of Oncology". onk.ns.ac.rs.

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