Martyr
Seleucus
Christian martyred for the faith of Christ.
- Feast
- December 3old style December 16
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Seleucus of Sophianae was put to the sword together with the Holy Martyrs Agapius and Mamas and forty other martyrs, in Sophianae. In some synaxaria their commemoration is linked with the names of the Holy Indes, Domna and Glyceria of Nicomedia.
The commemoration falls on 16 December, in the new style, the date coming from Greek sources; their names have not been entered in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Commemorated the same day December 3
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