Holy Martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, Germanus, and Manita

Life

The first three, having once seen how pagans at one of their festivals were worshiping idols with shouting and dancing, came forth fearlessly before the crowd and began to preach the one God in Trinity. The governor of Palestinian Caesarea, where this took place, Firmilian, was so enraged by this action of the three Christians that he immediately commanded that their heads be cut off. Manita was a Christian virgin. She was following the martyrs when they were being led to the place of execution. She too was seized and after cruel interrogations was burned in the fire. All suffered in the year 308 and departed to the eternal joy of the eternal God.