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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Heracleon and Diodorus

Heracleon and the presbyter Diodorus, martyrs of Laodicea, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
October 9old style October 22
Era
unknown
Place
Laodicea
Order
Martyrs

Life

Heracleon and Diodorus were martyrs of Laodicea, saints of the undivided Church. Diodorus was a presbyter.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411, the oldest martyr calendar of the East, commemorates them on 9 October, by the Julian calendar (old style): Heracleon and the presbyter Diodorus, martyrs at Laodicea. The Latin Hieronymian Martyrology, of the same origin, names a Heraclius here. No other account of them survives.

Commemorated the same day October 9