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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Poor Martyrs

A group of poor martyrs, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
August 18old style August 31
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

The Poor Martyrs are a crowd of poor people commemorated on 18 August in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). According to the synaxarion, they were put to death by fire by the emperor Licinius because they had destroyed the idols in the temple built by Saints Florus and Laurus (commemorated on the same day). The money the emperor had given for building the temple, the saints gave to this crowd of needy people. These, urged by Florus and Laurus, destroyed the idols in the temple and turned it, in a manner of speaking, into a Christian one.

Commemorated the same day August 18