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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Probus of Anazarbus

Christian of Anazarbus, martyred for the faith of Christ in 304.

Feast
October 12old style October 25
Reposed
3044th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Probus of Anazarbus suffered in 304, at Tarsus in Cilicia, together with the Holy Martyrs Tarachus and Andronicus.

The pagans asked them to sacrifice to the idols. St Tarachus, an old soldier, answered that he offered sacrifice to the one true God, with a pure heart. Seeing the firmness of the saints in confessing the faith, the proconsul gave them to torments. St Probus told the idolaters that when his body suffered, his soul was healed and revived. The tormentors devised every torment their malice could devise, and then cut the bodies of the saints in pieces. The Christians took the martyrs' remains in secret and buried them.

St Probus is commemorated on 25 October (12 October in the old style), in the new style.

Commemorated the same day October 12