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This Martyr was Bishop of the royal cities Seleucia and Ctesiphon in Persia.
As the number of Christians increased in Persia, building churches
and
appointing clergy, the Magi, guardians of the Persian religion, and
the Jews, who also envied them, accused Symeon to Sapor II, King of
Persia, saying that Symeon was a friend of the Roman Emperor and his
spy. Then began Sapor's persecution of the Christians of Persia, about
the year 343. The Magi together with the Jews destroyed the churches.
Saint Symeon was brought before Sapor, and, refusing to worship the
sun, was imprisoned. On Holy and Great Friday of that year, Saint Symeon
was brought out of prison with a hundred others, bishops, priests,
and deacons. As each was taken to be slain, Saint Symeon exhorted him
to be of good courage; he was slain last of all. It is said that 1,150
Martyrs were slain; an innumerable multitude of Christians were slain
throughout Persia during this persecution, among them Saints Acepsimas,
Joseph, and Aethalas.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the First Tone:
All the powers of Heaven were awestruck and amazed at the achievements and
deeds of the holy Martyrs of Christ; for contending well in mortal bodies
clothed with flesh, they overcame the fleshless foe by the power of the Cross
and invisibly subdued him. And now they pray to the Lord, that He might bestow
His mercy on our souls.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
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