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Saint Theophilus, One of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Martyr
Sebaste in Armenia
Feast day: March 9

Full icon of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, with Christ above and the martyrdom narrative; all source figures, marks and March 9 footer retained. Individual martyrs are not labeled by position. Image source: Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate official calendar

A life of faith

Theophilus is commemorated among the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The received account places the group during the reign of Licinius and remembers their confession of Christ, imprisonment and suffering in a freezing lake. The Church commemorates the forty together on March 9.

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