July 18, 2017

Holy Martyr Aimilianos of Silistria in Bulgaria (+ 362)

St. Aimilianos of Silistria (Feast Day - July 18)

Verses

Aimilianos was thrown into the fire,
Standing before Christ, he makes merry with the Angels.
On the eighteenth Aimilianos was thrown into the flames.

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Aimilianos was thrown to the burning coals,
Seeing the burning coal as Isaiah saw it.
On the eighteenth Aimilianos was burnt in the fire.

Theodoret of Cyrus, in his Ecclesiastical History (Bk. 3, Ch. 6), records the following about Saint Aimilianos: "At Dorostolon, a famous city of Thrace, the victorious athlete Aimilianos was thrown upon a flaming pyre, by Capitolinus, governor of all Thrace."

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