May 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 2
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St. Justin Martyr.
Crucifixion and Apotheosis of the Ten Thousand Martyrs. By Vittore Carpaccio, 1515.
Fresco of St. Fortunatus of Spoleto.
Ten thousand martyrs
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Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers in the Deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat who were, according to
June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250) The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251) Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299…
Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand painted by Albrecht Dürer.