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Bookmark or Share- Saint Demetrios: The History of Thessaloniki’s Beloved Patron SaintSaint Demetrios (or Dimitrios) of Thessaloniki is one of the most popular Christian saints not only in Greece but across the Orthodox Christian world, with millions of people bearing his name, in all of its many beautiful variations.
- St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki - Saints & Angels - Catholic OnlineCalled a military martyr, and 'the Megalomartyr' by the Greeks. He was a deacon martyred at Sirmium, in the former Yugoslavia. Early legends about Demetrius credit him with a military career. He was extremely popular in the Middle Ages, and with St. George, he was the patron of the crusades.
- Saint Demetrius: Who he was and why he is considered the patron saint ...Saint Demetrius, whom we celebrate every year on this day, October 26, the miraculous patron saint of Thessaloniki, is one of the most popular and honored saints of the Orthodox Church.
- Demetrios the Myrrh-streamer & Great Martyr of ThessalonikiSaint Demetrius was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint to the rank of Duke of Thessaly.
- Holy, Glorious Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher of ThessalonikiThe Great Martyr Demetrios (Dēmḗtrios) the Myrrh-gusher of Thessaloniki was the son of a Roman proconsul in Thessaloniki. Three centuries had elapsed and Roman paganism, spiritually shattered and defeated by the multitude of martyrs and confessors of the Savior, intensified its persecutions.
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