Sadoth
bishop of Seleucia and martyr
Feast: 18 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At the place Beth Lapat in the kingdom of Persia, the passion of Saints Sadoth, bishop of Seleucia, and one hundred and twenty-eight companions, martyrs: priests, clerics and consecrated virgins who, having refused to worship the sun, were put in prison, subjected for a very long time to cruel tortures and finally slaughtered by order of the king.
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 18 February as a bishop of Seleucia slain in Persia with 128 companions for refusing to worship the sun.
- Roman Martyrology, 18 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q933503 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.