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Sts. Codratus
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The Forty Martyrs of…
A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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March 10
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Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 30 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Nothing more of these martyrs is known than the brief mention in Eusebius, quoting from Apollinaris of Hierapolis, that they were natives of Eumenia, and that they suffered at Apamea.
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 March 10 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Nothing more of these martyrs is known than the brief mention in Eusebius [Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 339), the first historian of the Church], quoting from Apollinaris of Hierapolis, that they were natives of Eumenia, and that they suffered at Apamea.
Feast: March 10
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Caius and Alexander's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.