Martyr
Kerkan of Thrace
Martyr of Thrace, who suffered for Christ.
Life
Holy Martyr Kerkan of Thrace suffered in the year 304, at Philippopolis in Thrace, in the time of the Emperor Diocletian, together with the presbyter Severus, the centurion Memnon and thirty-six other martyrs. The Church commemorates him on 2 September (new style). He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Their hands and feet were cut off, and then they were thrown into a burning furnace.
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