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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Laurence

A martyr of the early centuries, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
January 9old style January 22
Era
3rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Laurence is unknown to the usual synaxaria and menaia. His name is commemorated on 9 January (new style) in codex Lavra Gamma 74 (f. 112a), which also contains two stichera of the saint.

They say that he finished the good contest in the stadium and arose from the west like a star lighting up the whole world. Standing in the midst of the idolatrous persecutors, he brought down their weakness with the sling of divine words. Adorned with the crown of victory, he now beholds the ineffable beauty of Christ. The Greek calendar commemorates him on the same day as the martyr Polyeuctus (died 259).

Commemorated the same day January 9