Martyr
Fortunion
A martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 27old style March 12
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Fortunion the Martyr is commemorated on 27 February (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Abundantius, Alexander, Antigonus, Calanus, Januarius, Macarius, Severian, Titian and Fortunion, with those who suffered together with them. The English calendar gives for them the years 284-305, the time of the persecutions at the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century.
The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death.
Commemorated the same day February 27
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