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Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 32 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Theognis was the son of the Bishop of Cyzicus, in Hellespont.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
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Theognis was the son of the Bishop of Cyzicus, in Hellespont. In the persecution of Licinius [Roman emperor in the East 308–324], he and his companions suffered at Cyzicus, being first scourged, and then cast into the sea.
Feast: January 3
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Theognis'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.
