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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Two Hundred Sixty-⁠two Martyrs of Rome

A company of 262 Christians who suffered for Christ at Rome.

Feast
March 25old style April 7
Era
unknown
Place
Rome
Order
Martyrs

Life

The Two Hundred Sixty-⁠two Martyrs of Rome are a company of Christians who suffered for Christ in the city of Rome. According to western martyrologies, around the year 269, in the reign of the emperor Claudius II, two hundred and sixty were condemned to dig sand on the Via Salaria and then shot to death with arrows in the amphitheatre. Their names are not preserved. They are saints of the undivided Church, commemorated on 25 March (new style; 7 April in the old style).

Commemorated the same day March 25