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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Christopher

A martyr commemorated with Eusebius, Leontius, Longinus, Neon and others.

Feast
April 24old style May 7
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Christopher the Martyr is commemorated on 24 April (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Eusebius, Leontius, Longinus, Neon, Christopher, Demetrius, Danavus and Nestavus. On the same day Saint Sabbas the Goth with the seventy soldiers who believed through him, and the hieromartyrs Achilles, Felix and Fortunatus, are also remembered.

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death.

Commemorated the same day April 24