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- Holy Martyr Paramon and his 370 Companions (~250)
- "Akylinus, the Governor of Bithynia in the reign of the Emperor
Decius (249-51), was leaving for the hot springs at Bisaltia, when he
decided to make 370 Christians from Nicomedia, who had been imprisoned
on his orders, worship in the temple of Isis. On their refusal to do
so, they wee all beheaded. Seeing this massacre, the righteous Paramon
cried out: 'What a wicked deed to slaughter so many righteous men, and
strangers moreover, as if they were animals.' The Governor heard these
words and had Paramon seized and taken with him under guard. On the
road he was mistreated in various ways by the soldiers. Some of them
struck him with their spears, others excised his tongue and other
members, and he was finally put to death in the presence of the
Governor." (Synaxarion)
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Note: of the various persecutions launched by the pagan Emperors before St Constantine,
the persecution under Decius was probably the fiercest and bloodiest.
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