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FORTY HOLY MARTYRS OF SEBASTE - 9 MARCH

 

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FORTY HOLY MARTYRS OF SEBASTE 

Today, we also commemorate the Forty Holy Soldiers of Cappadocia. The Roman Martyrology states:

"At Sebaste, in Armenia, under the governor Agricolaus, in the time of the emperor Licinius, the birthday of forty holy soldiers of Cappadocia. 

"After being loaded with chains and confined in foul dungeons, after having their faces bruised with stones, and being condemned to spend the night naked, during the coldest part of winter, on a frozen lake, where their bodies were benumbed and laid open by the frost, they ended their martyrdom by having their limbs crushed. The noblest of them were Cyrion and Candidus. 

"Their glorious triumph has been celebrated by St Basil and other Fathers in their writings."

From the Roman Martyrology - 🎨 Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

PRAYER:

Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy Martyrs of Sebaste, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Their names are: Quirion (Cyrius, Cyrion, Cyrinus), Candidus, Domnus, Melito (Militon, Mellitus, Melicius), Donitian (Diomecianus), Eunoicus, Sisinius, Heraclius, Alexander, Joannes (Julianus, Bibianus), Claudius, Athanasius, Valens, Helianus, Ecditius, Acacius, Vibianus, Helias, Theodulus, Cyrillus, Flavius, Severianus, Valerius, Chudio, Sacerdon, Priscus (Dianius), Eutychius, Eutyches, Smaragdus, Philoctimon, Aetius, Nicolaus (Micallius), Lysimachus, Theophilus, Xantheas, Angias, Leontius, Hesychius, Cajus, and Gorgonius. (Rabanus* omits Domnus and Smaragdus and names Juvenalis und Basilides instead).

From Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, pp. 18-19

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations 






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