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Manuel
saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 17 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
362
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Chalcedon, the holy martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael. They were sent to Julian the Apostate by the King of Persia as legates to obtain peace. The emperor himself ordered them to worship the idols. When they firmly refused, he had them put to the sword.
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 Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers him on 17 June.
Sources
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 17 June
- Wikidata Q3947575 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.