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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Agapion of Rome

A martyr of Rome, put to death for his faith in Christ.

Feast
November 22old style December 5
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Agapion of Rome was a native of Rome and suffered in the time of the persecution under the emperor Diocletian. He was thrown to wild beasts but, by a miracle, suffered no bodily wound from them and departed to the Lord. The place of his martyrdom is not known. He is commemorated on 5 December. His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In the Greek Menaion of today there is a verse synaxarion, in iambic lines, dedicated to this martyr at Matins, after the sixth ode of the canon.

Commemorated the same day November 22