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At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, the birth-day of St. Mamas, martyr, who from his childhood to his old age endured a long martyrdom, and at length, in the time of Aurelian, emperor, and Alexander, president, happily finished the same whose great praises St. Basil a…

Feast: 17 August

Martyrological notice

At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, the birth-day of St. Mamas, martyr, who from his childhood to his old age endured a long martyrdom, and at length, in the time of Aurelian, emperor, and Alexander, president, happily finished the same whose great praises St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen have left written.