Confessor
Ammonius
Reader of Cyrene
A reader of Cyrene, honored as a confessor together with Irenaeus and Serapion.
- Feast
- March 26old style April 8
- Era
- 4th century
- Place
- Pentapolis, Libya
- Order
- Confessors
Life
Saint Ammonius was a reader of the Church of Cyrene, in the Pentapolis of Libya, in the fourth century. With Bishop Theodore of Cyrene, the deacon Irenaeus and the reader Serapion, his tongue was cut out, probably in the persecution of Diocletian. He survived the torment and died in peace, during a lull in the persecution, and is honoured as a confessor.
They are commemorated on 26 March, by the church calendar: Theodore as a hieromartyr, and Irenaeus, Serapion and Ammonius as martyrs and confessors.
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