Epicharis (martyr)
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Epicharis is the name of two Christian
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 martyrs.

250

His feast day is 9 January (the day of her martyrdom) in the Roman Catholic Church
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.http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3147

Born in Africa, and becoming a bishop, he was martyred in 250 with Felix, Jucundus
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, Secundus
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, Vitalis
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, and seven other companions. An Epictetus
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, a bishop, was recorded by St. Cyprian
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.

300

Said to be the wife of a Roman senator, she was martyred in Byzantium or Asia Minor in 300. Her feast day is September 27
September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 28All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 10 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyr Callistratus of Carthage and 49 martyrs with him *Repose of Venerable Sabbatius, wonderworker of Solovki...

in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3146

Some sources give him as a lady of a senatorial family, who was scourged and then smitten with the sword in Rome in the persecution of Diocletian.http://web2.airmail.net/carlsch/MaterDei/Martyrol/sep-27.htm
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