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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Lucius

Martyr of Carthage

A martyr at Carthage, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
January 18old style January 31
Era
3rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Lucius was a bishop and died a martyr at Carthage in the persecution of the emperor Decius, in the third century; he took part in a council of bishops at Carthage.

The sources say little about his life. The old martyrologies commemorate him on 18 January, on the same day as Paul and Successus, the other clerics of Carthage. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in Western calendars, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day January 18