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July 22 · Martyr

St. Plato

St. Plato

Traditional feast

July 22
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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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

Keep their day. Remember them on July 22 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks on November 18th. Also by the Russians. The ancient Greek Acts do not exist; there are Latin versions, but of what date is uncertain. The ancient Acts existed, however, when the old Roman Martyrology, falsely attributed to S. Jerome, was drawn up. The following account is taken irom the Greek Menology*] Plato the martyr, a native of Ancyra in Galatia, was the brother of the martyr Antiochus, and was a young man very zealous for the Gospel. He was brought before the prefect, Agrippinus, and was beaten, then laid upon red-hot plates of iron, and red-hot iron was applied to his sides, till the skin burst and the juices poured out. His half-roasted flesh was cut off in strips, and one of these pieces Plato flung in the face of the prefect. He languished for eight days in prison, and then his head was struck off, and he entered into his rest.

Feast days

Feast: July 22

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Plato's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Mary Magdalen, Penit

St. Mary Magdalen

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St. Syntyche

July 22 · Feast
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St. Joseph

July 22 · Confessor
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Credits

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.