Holy Venerable Martyrs
Holy Martyrs of Cardeña
Monk martyrs of San Pedro de Cardeña Monastery in Spain, in 953.
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Life
The Holy Martyrs of Cardeña are, according to tradition, two hundred Benedictine monks of the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, in the province of Burgos in Spain, killed by the Umayyad Muslim troops of al-Andalus. Tradition says it was on 6 August 953, during an attack on the monastery; another source says the date is uncertain, in the 9th or the 10th century, in the time of the Reconquista wars.
They are remembered as saints by the Roman Catholic Church. Our sources give no other details of the martyrdom, their names or the place where their relics are venerated.
They are saints of the West, of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. The story, with its round number of two hundred and an uncertain date, is largely traditional.
Commemorated the same day August 6
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