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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Christopher

A martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
November 24old style December 7
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Christopher is commemorated together with the Holy Martyrs Philumenus and Eugenius. The time and place in which they lived are unknown. The commemoration of Philumenus and Christopher appears in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople (end of the tenth century), together with the martyr Eugenius, but it is unclear whether these saints suffered at the same time. The verse synaxaria say that Philumenus and Christopher were beheaded with the sword, and Eugenius was thrown by pagans from a wall (manuscript GIM, Syn. Gr. 390(354), of the year 1295).

They are commemorated on 7 December, according to the Greek calendar (new style). They are not in the present calendar of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day November 24