Martyr
Serapion of Tomis
A martyr of Tomis, remembered together with the tribune Marcellinus and his family.
Life
Holy Martyr Serapion of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 27 August (new style), with the tribune Marcellinus, his wife Mannea and their sons John and Peter, as martyrs of Tomis (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The text of the martyrology gives no other details about them.
Serapion is counted one of the sons of the tribune and belonged to the family that confessed Christ and received the crown of martyrdom together. The name Serapion is Egyptian, linked with the god Serapis, and was borne by several Christian saints.
Commemorated the same day August 27
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