Martyr
Didymus
A martyr of Cyprus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 20old style March 5
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Cyprus
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Didymus is commemorated on 20 February (new style) together with the martyrs Nemesius and Potamius, as martyrs of Cyprus. They are local saints of the island, and their commemoration is also found in the Roman Martyrology. They belong to the saints of the undivided Church.
Archimandrite Kyprianos (later Archbishop of Cyprus) counts them among the martyrs of the Church of Cyprus in his Chronological History of the Island of Cyprus (Venice, 1788), while Delehaye places them among those of the Church of Alexandria and thinks they may have been from Alexandria. Nothing else is known than that they suffered for faith in Christ at different times.
Commemorated the same day February 20
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