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Nicetas (Russ. Никита Nikita Ukrain. Микита from Greek Νικήτας Niketas) is a Christian martyr of the 4th century venerated above all in the Russian Orthodox Church. His feastday is 15 September.Nicetas a Gothic soldier lived in the Danube region at the margins of the Eastern Roman Empire. Presumably he received his Greek name on the occasion of his baptism by the Gothic bishop Theophilus a participant in the First Ecumenical Council.
