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Saint Telemachus
Roman saint and martyr
Feast: 1 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Telemachus (also Almachus or Almachius; Greek: Τηλέμαχος) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd. The Christian Emperor Honorius, however, was impressed by the monk's martyrdom and it spurred him to issue a historic ban on gladiatorial fights. Frederick George Holweck gives the year of his death as 391.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q1115667 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Telemachus (CC BY-SA)
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