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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Polyeuctus

A martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
February 19old style March 4
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Polyeuctus the Martyr is commemorated on 19 February (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Asclepiodota, Hesychius, Theodotus, Maximus and Polyeuctus. The English calendar places them at Adrianople and gives the years 305-311, the time of the great persecutions at the beginning of the fourth century.

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death.

Commemorated the same day February 19