ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 22nd of April WELCOME! SAINT ACEPSIMAS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS OF PERSIA The memorial of Saint Acepsimas and Companions is variously celebrated on April 22, March 14, or October 10. Saint Acepsimas, bishop of Honit in Persia (Assyria), a venerable old man of more than eighty years, received the prophecy that he would one day be martyred for his faith already as a boy, which duly came to pass. A terrible persecution against Christians broke out under the Persian King Sapor II and lasted with equal intensity for more than half a century. Saint Acepsimas was taken prisoner in 347 and tortured in the most cruel way. After his first steadfast confession of the Christian faith, his feet were bound with heavy chains by order of the governor, and Acepsimas was stretched out on the ground and scourged so cruelly that his body, covered in blood, seemed to be just an enormous single wound. Finally, after this terrible mistreatment he ...