A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Martyrs
Lucian and Marcian practised magic at Nicomedia. They were converted when their charms failed against a Christian virgin. They burned their books, gave their goods to the poor and lived in solitude, then went out to preach.
Under the edicts of Decius they were brought before the proconsul Sabinus, racked, and burned alive, singing hymns as they died. Butler gives 250; Baring-Gould, the text on this page, gives 251. The sources differ.
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 October 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: October 24
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Lucian and Marcian'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.
