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Paul of Neocaesarea
Bishop who suffered torture under the emperor Licinius
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Feast: 23 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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Canonised
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Who they were
Paul of Neocæsarea, also known as Saint Paul, Bishop of Neocæsarea, was an early Christian bishop best known for demonstrating the scars of his religious persecution under the emperor Licinius at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Constantine the Great Saint“According to Theodoret, Paul "had been deprived of the use of both hands by the application of a red hot iron by which the nerves which give motion to the muscles had been contracted and destroyed." After Licinius was executed in the year 324, when Constantine the Great became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire,…” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Wikidata Q7154597 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Paul of Neocaesarea (CC BY-SA)
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