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Porphyrius of Magnesia
martyr at Magnesia
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 10 February (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 Magnesia in the province of Asia, in present-day Turkey, Saints Charalampus, Porphyrius, Dauctus and three women, martyrs under the Emperor Septimius Severus.
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 10 February as a martyr at Magnesia under the Emperor Septimius Severus.
Sources
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