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November 15 · Martyrs

Sts. Elpidius and…

Sts. Elpidius and Companions

Traditional feast

November 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

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

Keep their day. Remember them on November 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks on Nov. 15. Authority: — Mention in the Menaea.]. ELPIDIUS and his companions, Marcellas and Eustochius, are commemorated by the Greeks on November 15, and were introduced by Baronius into the Roman Martyrology on the 16th. Where they suffered is not known; when they suffered is more distinctly stated — under Julian the Apostate, who made no martyrs. The fable which passes for a record of their passion says that Elpidius was a man of senatorial rank. By order of Julian he and his companions were attached to the tails of wild horses by their feet, and dragged and dashed to pieces. Such a martyrdom, if it took place, was certainly not under Julian.

Feast days

Feast: November 15

Nine days · Free

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

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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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.