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- Holy Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus (315)
- Hermylus was a deacon in Singidunum
(modern-day Belgrade) during the reign of Licinius. When he was arrested he joyously
welcomed the soldiers who came to seize him. When he confessed Christ before the
magistrate, he was beaten tormented, then thrown in jail. There he prayed to be
allowed to partake in Christ's saving Passion, and heard a voice assuring him that in
three days he would receive a Martyr's crown.
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Stratonicus, his jailer, was a kind-hearted man and secretly a Christian, and wept
to see the torments to which Hermylus was subjected. Seeing this, the soldiers began to
question him; and, seeing that his hour had come, he in turn openly confessed Christ.
For this he was seized, flogged and thrown into prison with his brother in Christ. The
following day, both were bound, tied in a net and thrown into the Danube, where they
received their divinely-promised crowns. Their bodies were washed up a few days
later, recovered by Christians and buried with honor.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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