Saint Peter of Nicomedia

Also known as

Peter Cubicolario

12 March
28 December as one of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia

Profile

Chamberlain in the palace of Diocletian in Nicomedia (in modern Turkey). Overheard lamenting the cruelty shown to the Martyrs of Nicomedia during persecutions of Diocletian, he was exposed as a Christian, arrested, tortured and martyred faith.

Died

whipped until his bones showed, had salt and vinegar poured on the wounds, and then was roasted to death over a slow fire in 303 in Nicomedia, Bithynia (modern Izmit, Turkey)

Canonized