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Acathius

At Constantinople, of St. Acathius, a centurion, who in the persecution of Dioclesian and Maximian, being accused by Firmus the tribune for a Christian, and cruelly tortured by Bibian the judge at Perinthus, was at Constantinople finally by Flaccinus, proconsu…

Feast: 8 May

Martyrological notice

At Constantinople, of St. Acathius, a centurion, who in the persecution of Dioclesian and Maximian, being accused by Firmus the tribune for a Christian, and cruelly tortured by Bibian the judge at Perinthus, was at Constantinople finally by Flaccinus, proconsul, beheaded whose body; being by divine power brought unto the shore of Scyllacium, is there kept with very great honour.