Martyr
Serapion of Alexandria
Martyr of Alexandria who died around 250.
- Feast
- February 20old style March 5
- Reposed
- 2483rd century
- Place
- Alexandria
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Serapion of Alexandria suffered in Alexandria of Egypt in the third century, around the year 248, in the time of the persecutions in the Roman Empire. The sources we have do not preserve details of his life or trial.
The Church remembers him among the martyrs of Alexandria, a city where the Christian faith was confessed in blood in many persecutions.
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