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Nicetas of Medikion
Byzantine saint
SaintFull write-upByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Feast: 3 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
760
Died
824
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the monastery of Medikion in Bithynia, in present-day Turkey, Saint Nicetas, hegumen, who suffered prison and exile under the emperor Leo the Armenian for having defended the sacred images.
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 3 April as hegumen of Medikion who suffered prison and exile under Leo the Armenian for defending the sacred images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 3 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q261374 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nicetas of Medikion (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.