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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Donatus

A martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion who died for the faith.

Feast
April 23old style May 6
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Donatus suffered together with Saint Therinus. The two are recorded as natives of Buthrotum (Butrint) in Epirus, and they were put to death by the sword, as the verse of the synaxarion shows.

No details survive of their lives or of the time in which they lived. They are commemorated on 23 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), on the same day as the holy Great Martyr George.

Commemorated the same day April 23