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

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December 12 · Martyrs

Sts. Epimachius and…

Sts. Epimachius and Alexander

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

Traditional feast

December 12
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

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.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus. By the Greeks, Epimachius on May 22; the Menology of Basil on Oct 30; and the Translation of his relics to Constantinople on March II. Authority: — The Letter of S. Dionysius of Alexandria, a contemporary, preserved by Eusebius, H.E. lib. vi. c. 41. The Acts of S. Epimachius are apocryphal.] N the persecution of Decius, Epimachius and Alexander suffered at Alexandria. Dionysius, a contemporary, says of them that after a long imprisonment, and after having suffered terribly from scourges and scrapers, they were burned to death.

Feast days

Feast: December 12

Nine days · Free

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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.

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St. Corentin of Quimper

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St. Finnian of Clonard

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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.