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Ferial–G (IV) – Sts. Abdon & Sennen, Martyrs–R (Comm.)
Thursday, July 30, 2020
These Persian nobles were taken to Rome as captives by Emperor Decius, after his campaign in their country. During those years of persecution, they bore courageous witness to Christ and reverently buried the bodies of the martyrs. Abdon and Sennen were themselves arrested and exposed to wild beasts in the Colosseum, about A.D. 250.