Martyr Hypomone

Hypomone is an early Christian martyr commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox calendar on April 5. Almost nothing is recorded of her life; the surviving tradition holds that she suffered during the pre-Nicene persecutions. Her name is the Greek word for 'patience' or 'endurance.'

She is among the most obscure saints of the calendar, absent from the Synaxaristes of Saint Nikodemos and from the printed Menaia. Her memory is preserved chiefly through a liturgical service attributed to her, recorded in Vatican Codex 1104 (folio 986) and composed by Saint Theophanes the Hymnographer. The acrostic of the canon of that service reads, 'I marvel at your sufferings, Hypomone.'