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St.Abercius Marcellus

Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Died: c.200 of natural causes Venerated: by the Greek Church since the 10th century Feast: October 22/November 4 Attributes: Vested as a bishop Abercius of Hieropolis (Greek Αβέρκιος, died c. 167) was a bishop of Hierapolis (modern Castabala) at the time of Marcus Aurelius, also known as […]

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St.Acca of Hexham

Born: 660 Died: 740 or 742 Venerated: in Roman Catholicism; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy Major shrine: Hexham Abbey, Northumberland (part of his cross survives) Feast: 20 October Life Born in Northumbria, Acca first served in the household of Bosa, the future Bishop of York, but later attached himself to Wilfrid, possibly as early as 678, and […]

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St.Abraham of Rostov

Born: unknown (10th century) Galich, Russia Died: around 1045 to 1074 Rostov, Russia Venerated in Eastern Orthodoxy Canonized: 1547-1549 Feast: October 29 (November 11 in Gregorian calendar) Saint Abraham of Rostov, Archimandrite of Rostov, in the world Abercius, was born in Chuhloma which is in Kostroma region and near the railway node Galich in tenth […]

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St.Achilleus and St.Nereus

The old Roman lists of the 5th century, which passed over into the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, contain the names of the two martyrs Nereus and Achilleus, whose grave was in the Catacomb of Domitilla on the Via Ardeatina. The notice in the more- complete version given by the Berne Codex reads: IIII id. Maii, Romae in […]

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