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Martyr

Timothy

Martyr of Caesarea Maritima

A martyr at Caesarea Maritima, killed around 307, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
November 5old style November 18
Reposed
3074th century
Place
Caesarea Maritima
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Timothy was a young man of Caesarea in Palestine, sent to the circus games, where he suffered for Christ around 307, in the persecution of Diocletian and his successors. He is remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church and commemorated on 5 November, with Philotheus of Caesarea. The sources at hand give no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day November 5