APPION, CHURCH AUTHOR

APPION, CHURCH AUTHOR - 10 FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 10th of February

APPION, CHURCH AUTHOR

Apion (Appius), remembered on February 10, was an ecclesiastical writer living in the time of Emperor Severus (222-235) and counted among the 'saints' in a martyrology at Salisbury, England.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 "The martiloge in englysshe after the vse of the chirche of salisbury [and] as it is redde in Syon, with addicyons. Catholic Church", Wynkyn de Worde - Martyrology. Salisbury, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07131.0001.001)

(Stadler's Encyclopedia also mentions the Church writers Sextus and Arabianus on this day.)

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ST HERACLITUS, AUTHOR

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