Marcellus and Eight Companions

Marcellus and Eight Companions were martyrs of Ancyra, the city of Galatia in Asia Minor, saints of the undivided Church.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates them on 4 September, by the Julian calendar (old style): Marcellus and eight other martyrs. The Latin Hieronymian Martyrology, of the same origin, names at Ancyra Marcellus, Gaianus and others. The names of the others and the circumstances of their suffering have not survived.