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The Holy Martyr Nikita of Nyrosa Commemorated on June 21 The Holy Martyr Nikita of Nyrosa, a native of the island Nyrosa near Rhodes, as a lad was converted to Mahometanism. At the age of maturity he renounced Islam and confessed himself a Christian, for which he was beheaded by the Turks on the island of Chios in 1732. © 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos. |
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