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Zoticus of Thrace
martyr in Thrace
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 21 August (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
In Thrace, in present-day Turkey, Saints Agathonicus, Zoticus and others, martyrs, who, as tradition has it, suffered martyrdom at Silivri and in other places.
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 21 August as a martyr who, tradition says, suffered at Silivri in Thrace or in another place.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 21 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rfebbd897 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.