Nicomedia

There were several martyred Gorgoniuses in the Catholic lists; the likeliest candidate for ours is St. Gorgonius of Nicomedia.

Abbe noted that a set of Roman historical friezes recently found in Nicomedia, Turkey, are “awash in purple.”

She was a woman of humble origin, born probably at Drepanum, a town on the Gulf of Nicomedia, which Constantine named Helenopolis in her honour.

After spending the winter in Nicomedia, he proceeded in 219 to Rome, where he made it his business to exalt the deity whose priest he was and whose name he assumed.

We have in martyrologies the account of Nicomedia and its twelve thousand martyrs.