St. Theodore

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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July 8 · Bishop, Martyr

St. Theodore

St. Theodore

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

July 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop
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 July 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea, Mcnology of the Emperor Basil. Modern Roman Martyrology. Authority: — Mention in the Menuea and Menology.] AINT THEODORE, bishop of Cyrene in Lybia, wa > accused by his own son before the Roman governor, in the persecution of Diocletian. He is said to have written books, " having learned the art of beau ifully painting letters/' perhaps the old Egyptian hieroglyphics. He was brought before an altar to offer incense, but he struck the idol with his shoes, which he held in his hand, and was at once tortured and killed. His tongue was cut out, and he was cruelly racked.S^S. Flavian and Elias.

Feast days

Feast: July 8

Nine days · Free

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Saints Theodore Tyron and Theodore Stratilates.jpg · Edal Anton Lefterov · CC BY-SA 3.0, 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: Edal Anton Lefterov, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.