Holy Martyrs
The Five Martyrs of Cappadocia
Five Christians of Cappadocia, put to death for their faith in 296.
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The Five Martyrs of Cappadocia were five Christians of Cappadocia in Asia Minor, put to death for their faith in the year 296, in the time of the persecution by the Roman emperors. The sources at hand do not preserve details of their names, trial and torments.
The Church remembers them as martyrs of Cappadocia, a region that gave the Church many confessors.