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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Paul of Tomis

A martyr of the city of Tomis, venerated together with Cyriacus.

Feast
June 20old style July 3
Era
4th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Paul of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 20 June (new style), with Cyriacus, as martyrs of Tomis, the city on the Pontus Euxinus (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The text of the martyrology gives no other details about their lives and deaths.

They are regarded as saints of the undivided Church who confessed Christ on the Black Sea coast in the first Christian centuries. The Church keeps their names as a remembrance of those Dobrujan confessors.

Commemorated the same day June 20