Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
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January 10
July 28 (also listed: December 28)
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Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 50 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Saint Nicanor, one of the first seven deacons appointed by the Apostles, was a native of Cyprus, to which he returned, that he might preach the Gospel on the dispersion of the Apostles.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Share your faith, in words and by example. Preaching and conversion are central here.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Saint Nicanor, one of the first seven deacons appointed by the Apostles, was a native of Cyprus, to which he returned, that he might preach the Gospel on the dispersion of the Apostles. He was variously tortured and then executed, in the reign of Vespasian, but where is not known.
Feast: July 28
Traditional: January 10
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Nicanor's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Nicanor the Deacon by Fedor Zubov (1685, Smolensky cathedral of Novodevichiy convent).jpg · Федор Зубов. · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
Image: Федор Зубов., Wikimedia Commons (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.
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