Saint Gordius
Roman officer and Christian martyr
Feast: 3 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Gordius (also known as Gordinus; born c. 2nd century AD - died c. 320 AD) was a Christian soldier in Cappadocia who was dismissed from the Roman army, lived as a hermit for a while, then returned and made an open declaration of his faith, for which he was martyred in the city of Caesarea Maritima. He is commemorated on 3 January in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2701896 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Gordius (CC BY-SA)
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