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Holy Martyrs

Plotinus and Forty-⁠nine Companions

Plotinus and forty-⁠nine other martyrs of Melitene, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
November 21old style December 4
Era
unknown
Place
Melitene
Order
Martyrs

Life

Plotinus and Forty-⁠nine Companions were martyrs of Melitene in Lesser Armenia, saints of the undivided Church.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates them on 21 November, by the Julian calendar (old style): Plotinus and forty-⁠nine other martyrs. The names of the others and the circumstances of their suffering have not survived.

Commemorated the same day November 21