Martyr
Abercius
A martyr honoured in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- December 5old style December 18
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Abercius is commemorated on 5 December (new style, the Greek calendar). The synaxarion says of him only that he received martyrdom by the sword. A verse tells him that the reward of the cutting is great, for the crown is not of wild olive, but heaven.
Place, time and other details are not preserved.
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