Venerable Martyr
John of Egypt
A monk of Egypt, commemorated as a martyr in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- September 20old style October 3
- Reposed
- 2953rd century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Venerable Martyr John of Egypt suffered together with forty other martyrs in the time of the emperor Maximian, in the year 295. By order of the impious emperor, their heads were cut off. The Azbyka page gives no further details. Their memory is kept on 3 October, according to the Greek calendar, and the page's note says that they are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.
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