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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Aroa

A woman martyr honoured alongside Cyprilla and Lucia.

Feast
July 4old style July 17
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Aroa is commemorated on 4 July in the synaxarion of the Church of Greece (new style), together with Cyprilla and Lucia. With them she served Saint Theodore, bishop of Cyrene, who was imprisoned for Christ, and after the martyrdom of Cyprilla she buried her honoured relics together with Lucia. The surviving sources do not tell how Aroa herself suffered.

Commemorated the same day July 4