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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Theoctistus the Confessor

A hieromartyr called the Confessor, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
January 9old style January 22
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Theoctistus the Confessor is remembered on 9 January, in the Greek Menaion, before the martyrs Polyeuctus (died 259) and Laurence. The title of confessor shows that he endured sufferings for the faith, and that of hieromartyr shows that he was a priest or a bishop. Our sources do not give his see, the year or the place.

Commemorated the same day January 9