Today, Saturday, September 16, according to the calendar, is the feast day of Agia Efimia and Agia Ludmila.

The names celebrating today are as follows:

Famous
Euphemia
Famous
Efi
Efimoula
Euphula
Fula
Ludmilla
Ludmila
Saint Euphemia

Great martyr of Christianity, whose memory is celebrated on July 11 and September 16.

Euphimia was born in the middle of the 3rd century and came from Chalcedon. During the persecutions of Diocletian (284-305) she was brought before the proconsul of Thrace and Bithynia and when she refused to renounce her faith, she was severely tortured. Before being thrown to the beasts and devoured by a bear, she managed to convert her two captives to Christianity.

A temple was later erected over her tomb, in which the Fourth Ecumenical Council met (451).

Saint Ludmila
Bohemian (Czech) princess, who was martyred for her faith and is honored by Christianity every year on September 16. Those with the name Ludmila celebrate this day.

Ludmila (860-921) was baptized a Christian together with her husband by the Thessalonian “illuminator of the Slavs” Saint Methodius. She also raised her grandson Wegeslao (Wenceslas) as a Christian, but after her son’s death, her pagan daughter-in-law Dragomira seized power and ordered Ludmila’s strangulation.

Saint Ludmila is the patron saint of Bohemia (an area spanning almost half of the Czech Republic) and her relics are housed in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Saint George in Prague, the capital of Bohemia and the Czech Republic.