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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Sabas and Companions

A group of martyrs remembered together in Western calendars, around 272; few details survive.

Feast
April 24old style May 7
Reposed
2723rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Sabas and Companions is a group of martyrs who suffered at Rome under the emperor Aurelian in the year 272. Sabas was an officer of Gothic descent, put to death with seventy of his companions. They are remembered on 24 April in the Western calendar (new style).

No further details have been preserved. They are honoured as saints of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the sources.

Commemorated the same day April 24