Epicharis (martyr)

Epicharis (martyr)

Epicharis is the name of two Christian martyrs.

250

His feast day is 9th January (the day of her martyrdom) in the Roman Catholic Church. [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3147]

Born in Africa, and becoming a bishop, he was martyred in 250 with Felix, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, and seven other companions. An Epictetus, a bishop, was recorded by St. Cyprian.

300

Said to be the wife of a Roman senator, she was martyred in Byzantium or Asia Minor in 300. Her feast day is September 27 in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3146]

Some sources give him as a lady of a senatorial family, who was scourged and then smitten with the sword in Rome in the persecution of Diocletian. [http://web2.airmail.net/carlsch/MaterDei/Martyrol/sep-27.htm]


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