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Tarachus
martyr at Anazarbus
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 11 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Anazarbus in Cilicia, in present-day Turkey, Saints Tarachus, Probus and Andronicus, martyrs, who during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian gave their lives to bear witness to the faith in Christ.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 11 October as a martyr at Anazarbus in Cilicia under the emperor Diocletian.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 11 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rb630cf97 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.