Martyr
Simon
A martyr commemorated together with Paul in the synaxarion of the Church of Greece.
- Feast
- February 3old style February 16
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Simon was a martyr commemorated together with Paul; both suffered by the sword, by beheading. The Greek synaxarion preserves no other details about their lives. The commemoration falls on 3 February (a date of the Greek synaxarion, new style).
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