On July 10 we honor the 45 holy martyrs in Nicopolis of Armenia. The city of Nicopolis (in Armenia) was the place of martyrdom of Leontius, Maurice, Antony, Alexander, and others with them.
These God-pleasers suffered because of their fearless confession of the Christian faith during the reign of Linnaeus in 319.
After their tormentors had tortured them cruelly, they cut off their hands and feet, threw them into the fire, and finally threw their bones into the river Lycos, where they were preserved in a shallow by the shore. Pious people took them and buried them.
Later on the same place, the Christians built a church in honor of the martyrs.