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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Brictius of Martola

Bishop of Martola

Bishop of Martola in Umbria, reposed around 312.

Feast
July 9old style July 22
Reposed
3124th century
Place
Martola
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Brictius of Martola was bishop of Martola near Spoleto in Umbria, Italy. Under Diocletian he was imprisoned for Orthodoxy, but he escaped death and reposed as a confessor in the time of Constantine, around the year 312.

He is commemorated on 9 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day July 9