St. Hermias

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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May 31 · Martyr

St. Hermias

St. Hermias

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

May 31
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 31
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on May 31 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, inserted by Baronius from the Greek Menology. But he has fallen into several mistakes. Hermias was martyr at Comana, in Cappadocia, not at the place of the same name in Pontus, as the Roman Martyrology asserts; Baronius was also mistaken in the facts. Authority: — The Greek Acts, a late, and not very trustworthy composition.] S. Hermias was a soldier who suffered in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, at Comana, in Cappadocia. His jaws were broken with a stone, and his sides, after having been torn, were irritated by the application of vinegar. His head was finally struck off.

Feast days

Feast: May 31

Nine days · Free

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Menaion icon (17 c., TsAK) - May - 46 - Hermias of Comana.jpg · Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917)Public domain image (according to PD-Russia-expired) · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917)Public domain image (according to PD-Russia-expired), Wikimedia Commons (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.