concept
Feast of the Ten Martyrs of Crete
the Ten Martyrs of Crete
also: десять мучеников в Крите, 23 December O.S.
An Orthodox commemoration (23 December Old Style) of ten martyrs put to death in Crete under Decius; Savely dates the blizzard that stranded the marshal's clerk at the watch-house to this feast day.
Reading notes
- The Witch §31 на десять мучеников в Крите
The feast of the Ten Martyrs of Crete (23 December Old Style) is invoked as the date of the blizzard that stranded the marshal's clerk at the watch-house -- another data point in Savely's private almanac of storms he attributes to his wife's supposed witchcraft.