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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Marcellus

Feast
May 22old style June 4
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Marcellus died a martyr in the early Christian centuries, being made to drink molten lead. The Synaxarion says in verse that Marcellus drank the burning lead as though he were drinking water. He is commemorated on 22 May.

Other details of his life, and of the place and time of his martyrdom, have not been preserved in the sources available to us.

Commemorated the same day May 22