Martyr
Agapius
A martyr commemorated with Saints Seleucus, Mamas and others in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- December 3old style December 16
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Agapius is remembered on 3 December, together with the martyrs Seleucus, Mamas, Indes, Domna, Glycerius and the forty martyrs in Sophianae. They suffered by the sword, and the commemoration of some of them is repeated on 28 December. Our sources do not give the year or the place of their martyrdom.
Commemorated the same day December 3
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Birinus of DorchesterSaint · Bishop of DorchesterDec 3
John the SilentSaint · Bishop turned hermitDec 3
Emma of LesumSaint · CountessDec 3- Gabriel II of ConstantinopleHieromartyr · Patriarch of ConstantinopleDec 3
Sabbas of StorozhiVenerable · Founder of the Zvenigorod MonasteryDec 3
Theodore Scribo of AlexandriaHieromartyr · Patriarch of AlexandriaDec 3- Abbo of AuxerreSaint · Bishop of AuxerreDec 3
- Agricola of PannoniaMartyrDec 3
- Andrew KosovskyHieromartyrDec 3
- Angelis of ChiosNew MartyrDec 3
- Anthemius of PoitiersSaintDec 3