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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Seventy Soldiers

A group of seventy soldier martyrs, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
April 24old style May 7
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

The Seventy Soldiers are seventy soldier martyrs, commemorated together on 24 April.

The synaxarion says they believed in Christ through the holy Sabbas Stratelates (the Goth) and suffered by the sword, their heads being cut off. Their names have not been preserved. They are commemorated, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), beside Sabbas the General.

Commemorated the same day April 24