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