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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Evagrius of Tomis

A martyr of Tomis remembered with Priscus and Crescens, distinct from the Evagrius honoured with Benignus.

Feast
October 1old style October 14
Era
4th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Evagrius of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 1 October (new style), with Priscus and Crescens, as martyrs of Tomis, the city on the Pontus Euxinus (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The martyrology gives no other details.

He should not be confused with Evagrius, the martyr of Tomis commemorated on 3 April together with Benignus. Both are counted among the martyrs of the first Christian centuries of Dobruja, saints of the undivided Church.

Commemorated the same day October 1