Daniel z Egiptu

Who they were

At Caesarea in Palestine, the holy martyrs Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel and Daniel: Christians from Egypt who, for having freely cared for the confessors of the faith condemned to the mines in Cilicia, were arrested and, by the governor Firmilian under the Emperor Galerius Maximian, cruelly tortured and finally put to the sword. After them the crown of martyrdom was also received by Pamphilus, priest, Valens, deacon of Jerusalem, and Paul, from the city of Jamnia, who had already spent two years in prison; and also by Porphyrius, servant of Pamphilus, Seleucus of Cappadocia, of high rank in the army, Theodulus, an elderly servant of the governor Firmilian, and finally Julian of Cappadocia, who, returning from a journey at that very moment, kissed the bodies of the martyrs, revealed himself a Christian and on the governor's order was burned over a slow fire.

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 16 February among Egyptian Christians martyred at Caesarea for caring for confessors condemned to the mines.

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• Julian of Cappadocia Saint
  “After them the crown of martyrdom was also received by Pamphilus, priest, Valens, deacon of Jerusalem, and Paul, from the city of Jamnia, who had already spent two years in prison; and also by Porphyrius, servant of Pamphilus, Seleucus of Cappadocia, of high rank in the army, Theodulus, an elderly servant of the…” — this site's research
• Seleucus of Cappadocia Saint
  “After them the crown of martyrdom was also received by Pamphilus, priest, Valens, deacon of Jerusalem, and Paul, from the city of Jamnia, who had already spent two years in prison; and also by Porphyrius, servant of Pamphilus, Seleucus of Cappadocia, of high rank in the army, Theodulus, an elderly servant of the…” — this site's research