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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Celsus and Marcionilla

Two martyrs remembered together, killed around the year 302; few details survive.

Feast
January 9old style January 22
Reposed
3044th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Celsus and Marcionilla are martyrs of the first Christian centuries, put to death in the persecutions of Diocletian, around the year 304. Marcionilla was the mother and Celsus her son. The place is given as Antioch, though it is thought that the correct reading may be Antinoe in Egypt.

They died together with the priest Antony, with Anastasius, a neophyte baptised by Antony, with Julian, and with the seven brothers of Marcionilla. Several legends have been written about them. Their commemoration is on 9 January, and several Christian confessions honour them as saints.

Commemorated the same day January 9