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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

The 310 Martyrs of Persia

Three hundred and ten martyrs slain in Persia in the persecution of Shapur II, commemorated in the Roman Martyrology.

Feast
May 9old style May 22
Era
unknown
Place
Persia
Order
Martyrs

Life

The 310 Martyrs of Persia are commemorated by the Roman Martyrology on 9 May: "In Persia, three hundred and ten blessed martyrs".

No sign of the date is given. It is supposed that they suffered in the 4th century in the persecution of Shapur II, but nothing is certain. An old Persian writer reckons the martyrs of that persecution at two thousand, and the historian Sozomen speaks of more than sixteen thousand known names. No other details of the three hundred and ten survive.

Commemorated the same day May 9