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Martyr

Thaddaeus

A saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
November 22old style December 5
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Thaddaeus is commemorated on 22 November (new style, the Greek calendar) as a martyr. According to the synaxarion he was bound to a wheel and let go headlong down a slope, and so was perfected. A verse says that the voice of thunder on the wheel was a psalm.

Place, time and other details of his life are not preserved.

Commemorated the same day November 22