Virginmartyr Glyceria at Heraclea with her Martyr Laodicius the prison guard

Glyceria was the daughter of Macarius, a former Roman official, and was living as an orphan in Trajanopolis in Thrace in the reign of Antoninus, c. 177. Her Passion tells that during a festival of Zeus, when the townspeople went in procession with lamps, she stood before the governor and declared that her lamp was the sign of the cross traced on her forehead.

She was imprisoned at Heraclea, where her jailer Laodicius came to believe and was beheaded for it. Glyceria was thrown to the beasts; according to the account, the first lioness lay down at her feet, and she died when a second was let loose. Bishop Dometius buried her near Heraclea.