Holy Martyrs
Martyrs of North-West Africa
A group of African martyrs, killed around the year 459; few details survive.
Life
The Martyrs of North-West Africa are a large group of Christians put to death at the Easter liturgy, around the year 459, by Genseric, the Arian king of the Vandals. The reader who was singing the Alleluia had his throat pierced by an arrow. They are remembered on 5 April in the Western calendar (new style).
Their names have not been preserved. They are honoured as saints of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.
Commemorated the same day April 5
Job of MoscowSaint · First Patriarch of MoscowApr 5
Plato of SakkoudionVenerable · Abbot of SakkoudionApr 5
Philip I of MoscowSaint · Metropolitan of MoscowApr 5
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Mark of AthensVenerable · Hermit and fool for ChristApr 5- Agathopus of ThessalonikiMartyrApr 5
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Argyre of ProusaNew MartyrApr 5- Nicholas SimoHieromartyr · ArchpriestApr 5
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Theodulus of ThessalonikiMartyrApr 5- AbdiesusSaintApr 5