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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Caecilius

A saint of Carthage from the time of the undivided Church.

Feast
June 3old style June 16
Era
3rd century
Place
Carthage, Africa

Life

Saint Caecilius lived in the third century and was a priest at Carthage, in Africa. It was he who led Saint Cyprian, the future bishop of Carthage, to the Christian faith. Baronius and other historians count him a friend of the philosopher Octavius and of the jurist Marcus Minucius Felix.

Converted to Christianity, Caecilius struggled for the faith of the fathers and for the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. The Greek synaxarion commemorates him on 3 June, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.

Commemorated the same day June 3