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Martyr

James

A martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
March 7old style March 20
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint James the Martyr is commemorated on 7 March (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) together with Aemilian and Marian. The English calendar places them in the time of the emperor Valerian, in the year 259, and calls Aemilian "the Roman".

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death.

Commemorated the same day March 7