Martyr
Theoticus
A saint honored in the West, of whom little is known.
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Life
Holy Martyr Theoticus was an official serving Saint Arian, the governor of the Thebaid who had become a Christian, in Egypt. At Alexandria, together with Arian and three companions whose names are not known, he witnessed the beheading of the deacon Apollonius and of Philemon. Because they refused to renounce the faith they were cast into the sea; according to tradition the bodies were carried ashore by dolphins and buried at Antinoe, where monks visited the graves at the end of the fourth century. He is commemorated on 8 March by the Roman calendar (new style), and Symeon Metaphrastes devotes a notice to him on 14 December.
Commemorated the same day March 8
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