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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Valention

Martyr of Durostorum

A martyr at Durostorum under the emperor Diocletian, remembered together with Pasicrates.

Feast
April 25old style May 8
Era
3rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Valention was martyred at Durostorum (today Silistra) in the time of the emperor Diocletian, together with Pasicrates.

The sources keep only this of him; the martyrologies counted him a martyr of the third century, but the persecution of Diocletian falls at the beginning of the fourth. His commemoration is kept on 25 April. He is a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.

Commemorated the same day April 25