Forty Martyrs of Armenia
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Also known as
- Forty Armenian Martyrs
- Forty Martyrs of Christ
- Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
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Forty Christian soldiers of the Thunderstruck Legion of the Imperial Roman army who were tortured and murdered for their faith during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius.
- exposed naked on a frozen pond to freeze to death at Sebaste, Armenia in 320
- bodies afterward burned
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
