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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Martyrs of Rome

A group of martyrs remembered together in Western calendars, around 260; few details survive.

Feast
March 4old style March 17
Reposed
2603rd century
Place
Rome
Order
Martyrs

Life

The Martyrs of Rome are remembered on 4 March in the Western calendar (new style) as a group of nine hundred martyrs, whose death is placed around the year 260, with a question mark. According to the calendar they were buried in the catacombs of Callistus on the Appian Way in Rome.

Nothing more is known: neither their names nor how they were condemned. They are honoured as saints of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the sources.

Commemorated the same day March 4