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A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 22 · Bishop, Martyr, Martyrs

Sts. Alexander and…

Sts. Alexander and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 22
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop
Martyr
Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 22 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Ado, Usuardus, &c.] In consequence of the names of Alexander, bishop and martyr, Hercules, soldier and martyr, with others, occurring on the same day as Philip of Heraclea in Martyrologies, the Roman Martyrology inaccurately makes them companions of S. Philip.

Feast days

Feast: October 22

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Alexander and…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on October 22
St. Salome

St. Salome

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St. Mark of Jerusalem

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St. Philip of Heraclea

October 22 · Bishop
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.