New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes (1732)

Commemorated June 21

The Holy Martyr Nikita of Nyrosa, a native of the island Nyrosa near Rhodes, as a lad was converted to Mahometanism. At the age of maturity he renounced Islam and confessed himself a Christian, for which he was beheaded by the Turks on the island of Chios in 1732.

Source: Crkveni Kalendar