Saint Adrian of Nicomedia
Also known as
- Hadrian
- 4 March
- 8 September (translation of relics)
- 26 August (Greek calendar)
- 1 December on some calendars
Profile
Pagan officer and body guard at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Adrian was so impressed by the strength and faith shown by persecuted Christians that he declared himself a Christian, though he had not even been baptized. He was immediately arrested and tortured. He and fellow prisoners were tended by his wife, Saint Natalia until they were executed.
- thrown to a lion, which refused to touch him
- legs broken with an anvil, and then hacked to pieces with a sword on 4 March 304
- body burned, but when a storm extinguished the fire his wife salvaged his dismembered hand as a relic, and took it to Argyropolis near Constantinople
- other relics at Grammont (Geertsbergen), Belgium
- against epilepsy
- against plague
- arms dealers
- butchers
- epileptics
- prison guards
- soldiers
- —
- Flanders, Belgium
- Germany
MLA Citation
- “Saint Adrian of Nicomedia“. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 March 2018. Web. 21 April 2018. <>