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Martyr

Craterus

One of the 42 martyrs of Amorium, who suffered in Baghdad in 845.

Feast
March 6old style March 19
Reposed
8459th century
Place
Amorium
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Craterus is counted among the forty-⁠two martyrs of Amorium (Phrygia) who suffered at Baghdad in the year 845. The Greek Menaion remembers him on 6 March, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), alongside the generals Aetius, Theodore, Theophilus, Constantine and Melissenus and alongside Bassoes and Callistus. Our sources give no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day March 6