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- Holy Martyrs Agathopous and Theodoulos (303)
- Agathopous was a deacon, very old, and Theodoulos a reader, very
young, in the church in Thessalonica. During Diocletian's persecution
the two were summoned to trial. They went joyfully, holding one another
by the hand and exclaiming to all, 'We are Christians!' After
flattery, cajolery, threats, imprisonment and starvation had failed to
make them deny Christ, they were condemned to death by drowning. They
were bound and a large stone tied to their necks; as they were about to
be thrown into the sea, Agathopous cried, 'Behold, by a second baptism
we are washed from our sins, and will go cleansed to Christ Jesus!'
Their drowned bodies were soon washed ashore, and Christians gave them
honorable burial. Not long afterward, Theodoulos appeared to his
brethren in the form of a shining angel and told them to give all his
goods to the poor.
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