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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Hermes, Adrian and Companions

A group of martyrs remembered together, killed around the year 290; few details survive.

Feast
March 1old style March 14
Reposed
2903rd century
Place
Numidia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Hermes, Adrian and Companions are martyrs of Numidia in North Africa, put to death around the year 290 under Maximian Herculius. They are commemorated on 1 March (the date in the calendars of Western saints, new style). The source consulted gives neither the number nor the names of the companions; little else is known.

Commemorated the same day March 1