Saint
Macedon
A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece, associated with Macedonia.
- Feast
- March 27old style April 9
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Macedonia
Life
Saint Macedon was a son of the holy senator Philetus and of Lydia, and a brother of Saint Theoprepius. He confessed Christ together with his parents and his brother in the time of the emperor Hadrian (117-138).
The synaxarion relates that during a persecution the family was arrested and refused to deny Christ. The parents were hung up and flayed by the duke Amphilochius, and all were imprisoned. In the prison angels gave them strength, and when they were cast into a cauldron heated with oil and resin, it grew cold at the sign of the Cross. Amphilochius himself came to believe in Christ, and the emperor let the saints go free, so they ended their lives in prayer.
He is commemorated on 27 March, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with Philetus, Lydia, Theoprepius, Amphilochius and Chronides.
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