Epicharis (martyr)

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This article is about the Christian martyr. For other uses, see Epicharis.

Epicharis is the name of two Christian martyrs.

[edit] 250

His feast day is 9th January (the day of her martyrdom) in the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

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

[edit] 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 in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.[2]

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.[3]