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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Hieromartyrs

Eucaerius and Seventeen Companions

The presbyter Eucaerius and seventeen other martyrs of Alexandria, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
May 26old style June 8
Era
unknown
Place
Alexandria
Order
Martyrs

Life

Eucaerius and Seventeen Companions were martyrs of Alexandria, saints of the undivided Church. Eucaerius was a presbyter.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411, the oldest martyr calendar of the East, commemorates them on 26 May, by the Julian calendar (old style): Eucaerius, presbyter, and seventeen other martyrs. The Latin Hieronymian Martyrology, of the same origin, counts fourteen. The names of the others and the circumstances of their suffering have not survived.

Commemorated the same day May 26