Today, 22 December, is the feast of ...
* Ischyrion, martyr at Alexandria (250)
- a servant to a ruler, he disobeyed an order to sacrifice; Ischyrion's
employer was not amused, so he took a long pole and shoved it through
the Christian's bowels
* Chaeremon, martyr (250)
- bishop of Nilopolis, who in his old age left his bishopric and fled
into the Arabian mountains with a friend; neither of them was ever seen
again
* Thirty Martyrs of Rome (303)
- in Rome, at one time, thirty people were killed on account of their
Christian faith; because of this, they became known as the Thirty [or
'XXX'] Martyrs of Rome
- anyone know anything else about these people, apart from them being
martyrs, thirty in number, who were killed in Rome?
* Zeno, martyr at Nicomedia (304)
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* Flavian, martyr (380)
- prefect of Rome under Constantius, he was branded on the forehead and
exiled to Acquapendente, where he died in the act of praying
* Ernan or Ferreolus (640)
- monk of Drumhome in Donegal, he was a nephew of St Columba
* Felix II, bishop of Metz (731)
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
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