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"Advanced LEFT: Dead person Pegasias"Advanced RIGHT: "Dead person Aphthonius"Put an end to CENTER: "Dead person Elpidephorus" Commemorated on November 2Saint Pegasias suffered martyrdom in Persia sad with Sts Acindynus, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus and 7,000 other Christians at the time of King Sapor II (310-381). These saints were Sapor's courtiers, and were secret Christians. In the past the king began his discrimination not keen Christians, jealous pagans denounced them to him. Summoned to Sapor's vision for trial, the holy martyrs gallantly confessed their confide in in the Blessed Trinity. The king controlled them to be defeated with whips. Sapor told the recruits that Sts Acindynus, Pegasias, Anempodistus and Elpidephorus would be the owner of their heads cut off, and that he would not call the Christians to torrent their bodies. A blistering clump accompanied these saints as they were led free the inner-city parapet for implementation, glorifying Christ. On Sapor's orders, throng massacred all the Christians in the wire (about 7,000), including St Elpidephorus. Acindynus, Pegasias, and Anempodistus were burned on the enthusiast day with the mother of the emperor. Christians, came covertly by night to the place of implementation, found the bodies of the holy martyrs safe by the fire, and they hollow them with idolization.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Festival POSTED THIS Check 2009(with 2008's association in the neighborhood likewise and develop, 2007's):"

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