Martyr
Peter
Martyr of Lampsacus
One of the martyrs of Lampsacus put to death under Decius, remembered with Peter, Andrew, Paul and Dionysia.
Life
Holy Martyr Peter is one of the martyrs of Lampsacus, the city on the shore of the Hellespont. The martyrs of Lampsacus, Peter, Andrew, Paul and Dionysia, were put to death in the persecution of Decius, around the year 250. The sources keep few details about them. Their commemoration is kept on 15 May in the Western calendar; they are saints of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.
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