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Sadoth and 128 companions (d. ca. 342). According to their Syriac-language Passio (BHO 1033; there are also versions in Armenian and in Greek), Sadoth (also Sadoc) was bishop of the neighboring cities of Ctesiphon and Seleucia in what is now Iraq during the persecution of the Persian shah Shapur II; his companions were priests, deacons, other clerics, and monks and nuns of his diocese. Shortly before their arrests began Sadoth received a dream vision of his predecessor, St. Simeon of Seleucia, who had been martyred in the previous year and who now counseled Sadoth that he was about to join him in heaven. All are said to have been tortured horribly for over five months in an attempt to induce them to accept their ruler's Zoroastrian religion. When after that they remained true to their faith most were killed outside Ctesiphon, singing psalms and looking forward to their entry into eternal life. Separated from his flock, Sadoth was taken to Beth-Lapat and was executed there by decapitation. Thus far these martyrs' Passio. The Roman Martyrology commemorates them under 18. February. The Synaxary of Constantinople has commemorations of them under 20. February and 19. October; some Orthodox churches today use the former day for their commemoration of these martyrs, some the latter.
The martyrdom of Sadoth (Sadoc) and companions as depicted in the later tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Cittą del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 414):
http://tinyurl.com/p3rbnfe
Best,
John Dillon
(matter from an older post lightly revised)
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