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It is unclear from the accounts in the Synaxarion and Menaion whether Adrian was already a Christian when he encountered the martyrs. His [[apolytikion]] may suggest that he was still a [[pagan]].
Another St. Adrian is commemorated the same day. St. Nicodemus says that he was a son of the emperor Probus (d. 276) and brother of the bishop of Byzantium Dometius. He was martyred in 313 under the emperor [[Wikipedia:Licinius|Licinius]] in [[Nicomedia]], then buried by his brother in Argyroupolis, where his namesake Adrian already lay buried.
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