Mareas, Bicor and Companions

Mareas, Bicor and Companions were bishop martyrs of Persia, put to death in 341, in the persecution of King Shapur II, together with other clergy.

The Roman Martyrology commemorates them on 22 April. The old text says that in the year after the death of Saint Shemon bar Sabbae, on the anniversary of the Lord's Passion, many saints were put to the sword throughout Persia: the eunuch Azades, the bishop Milles, the bishop Acepsimas with his priest James, the priests Aithalas and Joseph, the deacons Azadan and Abdiesus, the bishops Mareas and Bicor, together with twenty other bishops and nearly two hundred and fifty clerics, then many monks and consecrated virgins. No other account of the life of the two bishops survives.