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- Holy Martyr Lucillian and those with him (270)
- Lucilian spent most of his life as a pagan priest. In advanced old
age, he learned the truth of the Christian faith and was baptized. The
conversion of so public a figure quickly attracted attention, and
Lucilian was brought to trial in Nicomedia. After enduring many tortures
he was imprisoned with four young Christians, scarcely older than
children: Claudius, Hypatius, Paul and Dionysius. When they were brouht
before Silvanos the governor, all five confessed their faith and were
sentenced to death and cast into a fiery furnace. When they
miraculously emerged unharmed, they were taken to Byzantium, where the
four young men were beheaded and Lucillian was crucified. A maiden named
Paula openly carried away the martyrs' bodies and buried them. For this
she in turn was tortured and, refusing to renounce her faith in Christ,
beheaded. This was in the reign of the Emperor Aurelian. A church was
built in their honor in Constantinople.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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