OCHRID
Saints

Martyr

Holy Martyr Nicholas Karaman

December 6 Old CalendarDecember 19 New Calendar

Read December 6 in the Prologue

Life

For the Christian Faith he was fiercely tortured by the Turks and hanged in Smyrna in the year 1657.

From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, December 6. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Also commemorated on December 6

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia HierarchSaint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara HierarchSaint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch Hierarch

The full reading for December 6 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.

Open December 6 in the reader