ON THE HOLY KINDRED MARTYRS — GRANDFATHER, GRANDMOTHER, FATHER, MOTHER, AND TWO SONS — AMONG THE GREEKS.
CommentaryGrandfather and grandmother, father and mother, two sons, kindred Martyrs among the Greeks (SS.)
These holy Martyrs are celebrated in the Greek Menaea with these words: "The holy Martyrs — grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and two children — are perfected by the sword" (Ὁι ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες, πάππος, μάμμη, πατὴρ, μήτηρ, καὶ δύο τέκνα ξίφει τελειοῦνται). "A kindred race contended through the sword: the grandmother with the grandfather, the mother with the father, and the children" (Διὰ ξίφους ἤθλησε συγγενὲς γὲνος, Ἡ παππόμαννος, πατρόμητρος, τεκνία).
The holy Martyrs — grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and two sons — ended their lives by the sword. Through the sword, as athletes, a kindred race contended: with the grandfather, the grandmother; with the father, the mother and the sons. They are also mentioned in Maximus of Cythera. We have found nothing elsewhere.