Venerable Martyr
Paul of Córdoba
A martyr of Córdoba in Spain, who died in 856.
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Life
Paul of Córdoba was a monk and martyr in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, put to death on 17 April 856, in the time of the emir Muhammad I.
He died together with the priest Elias, born at Beja in present-day Portugal, and the monk Isidore. Elias was old, and Paul and Isidore, young monks, were his disciples. The martyrology of Usuard remembers at Córdoba the priest Elias and Paul and Isidore, monks.
According to an encyclopedic article that cites the Greek Great Synaxaristes, their commemoration in the Orthodox Church would be on 30 April; this could not be verified. Paul is not to be confused with the deacon Paul of San Zoilo, who died in 851.
He is a saint of the undivided Church, honored mostly in the West; an Orthodox synodal canonization is not certain.
Commemorated the same day April 17
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Simeon bar SabbaeHieromartyr · Bishop of Seleucia-CtesiphonApr 17
Alexander of SvirVenerable · Abbot of Svir MonasteryApr 17
Acacius of MeliteneSaint · Bishop of MeliteneApr 17
Macarius of CorinthSaint · Metropolitan of CorinthApr 17
Zosimas of SolovkiVenerable · Co-founder of Solovki MonasteryApr 17- UsthazadesMartyrApr 17
- Paisius of KyivVenerable · Monk of the Kyiv Caves LavraApr 17
- Abdelas of SeleuciaHieromartyrApr 17
- Adrian of CorinthMartyrApr 17
- Ananias of SeleuciaHieromartyrApr 17
- Askitreia of SeleuciaMartyrApr 17