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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Paul

Martyr of Carthage

A cleric and martyr at Carthage, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
January 18old style January 31
Era
3rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Paul of Carthage was a bishop and died a martyr in the persecution of Decius, in the third century; he took part in a council of bishops at Carthage.

The sources keep few details of him. The old martyrologies commemorate him on 18 January, on the same day as Lucius and Successus, the other martyrs of Carthage. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in Western calendars, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day January 18