Short Cuts
According to legend Adrian was a pagan
officer at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of
a group of Christians who were being tortured, he declared himself a Christian
and was imprisoned with them and suffered excruciating tortures before
he was put to death. His young wife, Natalia, who was present at his
death, comforted him in his agony, recovered one of his severed hands,
and took it to Argyropolis near Constantinople, where she fled to escape
the importunities of an imperial official of Nicomedia who wanted to marry her. She died there peacefully on December 1. Adrian is the patron of soldiers and butchers.
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