Martyr Nika of Corinth

Saint Nika was one of seven Christian virgins (together with Chariessa, Galina, Kalisa, Nunechia, Basilissa, and Theodora) who made up a church choir led by Hieromartyr Leonidas of Corinth, and who continued to openly sing Christian hymns during the persecution when others hid. The group was arrested near Troezen on the eve of Pascha and brought to Corinth.

Leonidas refused a bribe to sacrifice to the pagan gods, for which he was flayed and burned with torches; together with him the seven virgins were taken about 6 km out to sea, where, with their hands bound and stones tied around their necks, they were thrown overboard from a ship. Tradition holds that before drowning they walked on the water for a time, singing psalms; Leonidas himself called the coming death in the waves a "second baptism."

The martyrdom took place in 258 under the governor Venustus. The relics were discovered in 1917 after apparitions to local Christians and became a site of pilgrimage.

Her feast is kept on April 16/29 together with Hieromartyr Leonidas and the other martyred women of the group (Chariessa, Galina, Kalisa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora).