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Martyr

Juvenal

A martyr who gave his life for Christ in the year 132.

Feast
May 7old style May 20
Reposed
1322nd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Juvenal suffered in the year 132, in the time of the emperor Hadrian (117-138).

A Western calendar calls him Juvenal of Benevento. No other details of his life or of the manner of his death are preserved. He is a saint of the undivided Church, from the West, commemorated on 7 May in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).

Commemorated the same day May 7