Martyr
Acepsimas
A martyr commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church, put to death for his faith in Christ.
- Feast
- December 7old style December 20
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Acepsimas suffered together with the martyrs Isidore and Leo. The time and place of their death are not known. The life of the saints has not been preserved; their commemoration appears in the calendars twice. On 4 October it is found in the Typikon of the Great Church, in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople and in some other calendars and Menaia. On 7 December the commemoration and a couplet dedicated to them are found in the Greek verse synaxaria, in the printed Greek Menaion (Venice, 1595) and in the Synaxaristes of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. There it is said that the martyrs died in fire. His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Commemorated the same day December 7
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