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
Hilary of PoitiersSaint · Bishop of PoitiersJan 13
James of NisibisSaint · Bishop of NisibisJan 13Kentigern of GlasgowSaint · Bishop of GlasgowJan 13
Jeremias I of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleJan 13
Irenarch the RecluseVenerable · Recluse of RostovJan 13
Eleazar of AnzerVenerable · Founder of the Anzer SketeJan 13
Maximos of KafsokalyviaVenerableJan 13Vivenzio of BleraSaint · Bishop of BleraJan 13
- Leontius of CaesareaSaint · Bishop of Caesarea in CappadociaJan 13
- Nicholas the GreekSaintJan 13
- Ailell of Ard MachaSaintJan 13
- Andrew of TrierHieromartyrJan 13