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Irenaeus of Pentapolis
deacon and martyr in the Pentapolis
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 7 April (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 the Pentapolis in Libya, the holy martyrs Theodore, bishop, Irenaeus, deacon, Serapion and Ammon, lectors.
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 7 April as a deacon martyred in the Pentapolis in Libya with the bishop Theodore, Serapion and Ammon.
Sources
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