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Holy Martyrs

Hesychius and Companions

Hesychius and other martyrs of Byzantium, saints of the undivided Church, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
May 19old style June 1
Era
unknown
Place
Byzantium
Order
Martyrs

Life

Hesychius and Companions were martyrs of Byzantium, the city that was to become Constantinople, saints of the undivided Church.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates them on 19 May, by the Julian calendar (old style): "at Constantinople, at Byzantium, Hesychius and other martyrs". His companions are not named, and no other account of their lives or deaths survives.

Commemorated the same day May 19