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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Melor

A Breton prince slain in his youth and honored as a martyr, around 544.

Feast
October 1old style October 14
Reposed
5446th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Melor (Melorius) is a young Breton prince, slain in his youth and honoured as a martyr, around 544. According to an Orthodox calendar from England, he was born in Cornwall and is venerated at Amesbury in Wiltshire and at Quimper in Brittany. He is commemorated on 1 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day October 1