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Saint

Papyrinus

A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.

Feast
January 13old style January 26
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Papyrinus died a martyr, drowned by his persecutors in a river. He is commemorated on 13 January (new style) in the Greek synaxarion, together with Saint Pachomius, who met the same end.

A verse of the synaxarion says that Papyrinus found the end that Pachomius had, cast into the water. No details of their lives are known, nor the place or time of their martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day January 13