Confessor
Agathon
A confessor of the faith from Philippi in the age of persecution, around 304.
- Feast
- April 16old style April 29
- Reposed
- 3044th century
- Place
- Philippi
- Order
- Confessors
Life
Saint Agathon the Confessor lived in the time of the emperor Diocletian (284-305) and was arrested in the year 304 at Thessalonica, together with the holy women Eutychia, Cassia and Philippa.
The four young people confessed Christ before the governor Dulcitius and the prefect Cassander. Because of their youth they were not sentenced to death but shut in prison. For this reason they are called confessors rather than martyrs. No other details of their lives survive.
They are commemorated together on 16 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).
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