A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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January 12
September 17
Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 55 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Satyrus is said to have signed the cross, and breathed on an idol in the street of Achaia (on the Euxine?), and it fell. Wherefore he was executed by decapitation. This is stated in all the Martyrologies, but some say the act was done at Antioch.
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 January 12 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Satyrus is said to have signed the cross, and breathed on an idol in the street of Achaia (on the Euxine?), and it fell. Wherefore he was executed by decapitation. This is stated in all the Martyrologies, but some say the act was done at Antioch. Of the others, his companions, nothing is known.
Feast: September 17
Traditional: January 12
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Satyrus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.