St. Dominic Uy (†1839) was a Vietnamese martyr, a tertiary of the Dominican Order, who was strangled at the age of twenty-six. He was beatified in 1900 and canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia (†304) was a pagan officer and bodyguard at the imperial court of Nicomedia. He was so impressed by the strength and faith shown by persecuted Christians that he declared himself a Christian, though he had not even been baptized. He was immediately arrested and tortured. He and his fellow prisoners were tended by his wife, Saint Natalia until they were executed. He was thrown to a lion, but the beast refused to touch him, then his legs were broken with an anvil, and his body was hacked to pieces with a sword. His body was burned, but when a storm extinguished the fire, his wife salvaged his dismembered hand as a relic and took it to Argyropolis near Constantinople. His feast day is commemorated on March 4 and September 8 (translation of relics). His assistance is invoked against epilepsy and against plague and he is a holy patron of arms dealers, butchers, epileptics, prison guards and soldiers as well as Flanders (Belgium) and Germany.
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