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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Maron

A martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
July 18old style July 31
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Maron is commemorated together with the Holy Martyr Dasius. The time and place of their life are not known. The verse synaxaria say that they were beheaded with the sword (a Paris manuscript of 1301). In several Byzantine calendars, among them the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople (end of the tenth century) and the Typikon of the Great Church (ninth and tenth centuries), they are commemorated together with the Holy Hieromartyr Marcellus, of whom it is known only that he died on a red-⁠hot iron bed.

They are commemorated on 31 July, according to the Greek calendar. Their names are not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day July 18