A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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December 12
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Martyrs
Butler spells the name Epimachus. He and Alexander were arrested at Alexandria during the persecution of Decius. After a long imprisonment they were beaten with clubs, torn with iron hooks and burnt.
St. Dionysius, archbishop of Alexandria, saw part of their sufferings. He also names four women martyred on the same day, including the virgin Ammonarium. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on 250.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
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 December 12 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: December 12
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Epimachius and…'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, 1897–98); 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.