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- Holy Martyr Emilian (362)
- He was from the town of Dorostolon in Thrace and during the reign of
Julian the Apostate became a servant of the governor in that region.
Before the time of his martyrdom he was a secret Christian. An imperial
legate arrived in the town with orders to seize all Christians, but
failed to find any; to show his pleasure he ordered a great feast for
the whole town, complete with sacrifices to the pagan gods. On the
night before the appointed feast, Emilian went around the town and
smashed all the idols with a hammer. The following day there was an
uproar, and an innocent villager was seized and charged with the crime.
Emilian, seeing this, said to himself 'If I conceal my action, what
sort of use has it been? Shall I not stand before God as the slayer of
an innocent man?' So he presented himself to the legate and confessed
what he had done. When the furious official asked Emilian on whose
orders he had acted, Emilian replied 'God and my soul commanded me to
destroy those dead pillars that you call gods.' As punishment, Emilian
was subjected to many tortures and finally burned alive.
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