Dorotheus
Christian martyr and saint together with Peter and Gorgonius
Feast: 12 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the same place (Nicomedia), the passion of Saint Peter, martyr, who, a servant of the chambers of the Emperor Diocletian, having complained without fear of the tortures inflicted on the martyrs, was by order of the same emperor led to a public place and first hung up and tortured for a very long time with whips, then burned on a fiery gridiron. Dorotheus and Gorgonius then, also in charge of the royal chambers, having protested, were punished with similar tortures and finally hanged.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 12 March as a chamberlain of Diocletian at Nicomedia who protested at the torture of the martyrs and was tortured and hanged.
- Roman Martyrology, 12 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q131543206 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.