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Martyr

Meliton

Feast
July 3old style July 16
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Meliton suffered a martyr's death in the time of the emperor Trajan (98-117), at Caesarea in Cappadocia, beside the Holy Martyrs Theodotus and Theodota, Diomedes, Eulampius, Peter, Asclepiodotus and Golinduch. He is commemorated on 3 July.

The sources available to us preserve no details of his life or of the manner of his death. The eight martyrs are commemorated together.

Commemorated the same day July 3