Saints Codratos, Anectos, Paul, Dionysios, Cyprian and Kriskis, March 10
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Eις τον Kοδράτον. Τῶν δυσσεβῶν τὴν πίστιν ὕβρεσι πλύνας Τμηθεὶς Κοδρᾶτε σῶν ἀφ' αἱμάτων πλύνῃ. Eις τον Άνεκτον, Παύλον και Διονύσιον. Γνωστοῖς Ἄνεκτον σὺν δυσὶ κτείνει ξίφος, Οἷς οὐκ ἀνεκτὸν μὴ θανεῖν Θεοῦ χάριν. Eις τον Kρήσκεντα και Kυπριανόν. Ὁρῶν καταθνῄσκοντα Κρήσκεντα ξίφει, Σπεύδει σὺν αὐτῷ Κυπριανὸς τεθνάναι. Ἀμφὶ δεκάτῃ Κοδρᾶτον ξίφος ἐγκατέπεφνε. Saints Codratos, Anektos, Pavlos, Dionysios, Cyprian and Crescis the Martyrs were friends and martyred during the persecution of the emperors Decius (249-251 AD) or Valerian (253-259 AD) in Corinth, when ruler of Greece was Jason. In the Minologion of the emperor Basileus Vy, it is mentioned that of the Christians, those who had been arrested were massacred, but those who escaped hid in the mountains, for as long as needed. So the mother of Kodratus, who came from the city of Corinth, fled to the mountain and hid. And as she was pregnant, she gave birth to a son whom she named Codratus. Then, after living for a while, sh...