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Ammon
Deacon and martyr in Thrace (now in southern Balkans), with forty young women he had converted, under the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, died 322.
Ammon was singled out and slain by having a red hot poker placed on his head.
Laetus
Deacon and martyr, with Vincent of Xaintes (first bishop of Dax in Gascony, France), date of death unknown, perhaps 5th c.
Possibly born in Spain, they are venerated in Toledo.
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Memorius
Deacon and martyr of Troyes in France, with companions, beheaded by Attila the Hun, 451.
Also called Mesmin or Nemorius, Memorius was sent by Lupus, bishop of Trier, with four companions to ask Attila to spare Troyes, on the Seine northeast of Paris. Attila beheaded Memorius and his fellow delegates. Although there is some doubt about this account, the relics of the martyrs are still venerated.
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Emilas
Deacon and martyr, with Jeremiah, at Córdoba in Spain, in 852.
The two young men were imprisoned and beheaded in Córdoba under the Emir Abderrahman. They are two of the forty-eight Martyrs of Córdoba, described in detail by Eulogius. They were executed for capital violations of Muslim law in al-Andalus. The martyrdoms took place between 851 and 859. With few exceptions, the Christians invited execution by publicly stating their faith and beliefs. Some appeared before the Muslim authorities to denounce Mohammed; others, Christian children of Islamic-Christian marriages, publicly proclaimed their Christianity. The lack of an interested chronicler after Eulogius’ own martyrdom in 859 has given a misimpression that there were fewer episodes later in the ninth century.
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Abundantius
Deacon and martyr of Rome, arrested with presbyter Abundius for refusing to offer sacrifice to Hercules, tortured at Mammartine prison in Rome, and martyred by beheading, with Abundius and senator Marcian and his son John, in the persecution of Diocletian, c. 304.
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Thyrsus of Smyrna
Deacon and martyr, with presbyter Andochius and merchant Felix, tortured and killed in Gaul, 2nd c.
Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna sent Andochius and Thyrsus to what is now Burgundy in central France. They settled in Augustodunun (Autun), where they converted their host, a rich merchant named Felix. For teaching the gospel, all three were scourged, suspended all day by their hands (tied behind their backs), and thrown into the fire, but the fire did not consume them. Finally their necks were broken with heavy bars, killing them. They were venerated throughout Gaul.
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