Martyr · 10th century
Martyrs Theodore and John the Varangians of Kiev
Also known as Theodore the Varangian · John his son
A Varangian Christian and his son in Kiev who refused to give the youth up for pagan sacrifice and were killed by the heathen — the first martyrs of the Russian land, before the Baptism of Rus'.
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Notes
Named father-and-son pair commemorated as one.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints