Gemellus of Ancyra
Ancyra or Edessa | |
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| Feast | December 10 |
Saint Gemellus of Ancyra (
Julian the Apostate.[1]
He was a native of Paphlagonia.[2]
He is said to be the last Christian martyr who was killed by crucifixion.Edessa[2]).
A church dedicated to Saint Gemellus was located at Sykeon, a village on the Siberis River in Asia Minor.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Michael Walsh, A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West (Liturgical Press, 2007), 222.
- ^ a b c Sir William Smith, A dictionary of christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines: being a continuation of "The dictionary of the Bible", Volume 1 (Little, Brown & Co., 1880), 623.
- ^ Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, The historical geography of Asia Minor (John Murray, 1890), 244.
