Martyr
Andronicus
A soldier martyr commemorated with Andrew, Pelagia and Thecla.
- Feast
- September 6old style September 19
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Andronicus the soldier is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 6 September (new style), together with Andrew, Pelagia and Thecla.
The synaxarion speaks of the martyrs Macarius and Andrew, arrested at Alexandria in Egypt in the persecution of Decius by the governor Valerian, tortured much and then beheaded. For Pelagia and Thecla another account is kept: two sisters, seized at Alexandria by the same governor, harshly tortured and beheaded. A Patmos codex (no. 266) lists Pelagia and Thecla and, further down, Andronicus the soldier, which shows the link between the names. No other details of Andronicus are preserved in the sources consulted.
Commemorated the same day September 6
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Faustus, Abibus and DionysiusHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of AlexandriaSep 6
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Archippus of ChairotopaVenerableSep 6- Eudoxius, Zeno and MacariusMartyr · Martyrs of MeliteneSep 6
- Constantine BogoslovskyHieromartyr · ArchpriestSep 6
- Abibas of AlexandriaHieromartyr · DeaconSep 6
- Andrew of AlexandriaMartyrSep 6
- Andropelagia of AlexandriaMartyrSep 6
- Arator of VerdunSaint · Bishop of VerdunSep 6
- AugustineHoly MartyrsSep 6
- BegaVenerableSep 6
- Bricin of TomreganVenerable · Abbot of TomreganSep 6