A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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September 17
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Martyrs
Socrates and Stephen are named in the British martyrologies and suffered in Dioclesian's persecution.
Many churches in Wales were once dedicated to them, and Butler says they are thought to have died in that part of Britain. The text on this page gives about 304.
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 September 17 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: September 17
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Socrates and Stephen'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.
