Remembered on November 7
Hieron and the Martyrs of Melitene
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
Hieron and his companions are remembered among the Christians who suffered during the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximian, around the beginning of the fourth century. Their commemoration belongs to Melitene, in what is now eastern Turkey. Tradition describes Hieron as a farmer who refused to give up his faith. Remembered together, they remind us that courage can be shared among ordinary people whose lives might otherwise leave little record.
How they died
Tradition holds that Hieron and his fellow martyrs were beaten and then beheaded outside the city.
- Feast day
- November 7
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on November 20. - Kind of saint
- Martyr
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