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- Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy (44)
- He was by birth a Jew from Edessa; it was he who instructed king
Avgar in the Faith and baptised him (see August 16). According to
Eusebius he is not the Thaddeus who was one of the Twelve (Mt 10:3), but
was one of the Seventy. After Christ's Resurrection, he preached the
Gospel in Mesopotamia and ended his life in martyrdom.
- Holy Martyrs Bassa and her sons Theognis, Agapios, and Pistis (4th c.)
- "Bassa was the wife of a pagan priest, but she was secretly a
Christian and brought her sons up in a Christian spirit. Her husband
hated her for her faith, and handed her over to the judge for torture,
together with her sons. After harsh torture, her sons were beheaded (it
is thought, in Edessa in Macedonia). Bassa was filled with joy to see
her sons thus gloriously finish their martyr's course for Christ, and
herself went with yet greater desire from torture to torture. When she
was thrown into the sea, angels appeared to her and took her to an
island in the Sea of Marmara, where she was slain with the sword under
Maximian. Thus holy Bassa was in a twofold manner made worthy of the
Kingdom of Christ: as a martyr and as the mother of martyrs." (Prologue)
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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