Galaction and Episteme
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Saint Template:Proper name (also Galaktion, sometimes Galation) was a 3rd-century Syrian Christian, martyred with his wife, Episteme (Epistima), whom he had converted to the Christian faith (Template:Langx[1]).
Life
He was the son of Kletophon and Leukippe, who were a rich and distinguished, but initially childless, pagan couple.[2] When the couple was converted after being evangelized by a travelling monk/priest/beggar on the promise that the one, true God would hear their prayers and grant them a child, Template:Proper name was conceived and born.
Template:Proper name hoped from the beginning to live the monastic life, but he submitted in obedience to his parents and was betrothed to the beautiful pagan woman Episteme. During the course of their engagement, over subsequent visits Template:Proper name converted first his fiancée and then her servant, Eutolmius. The couple went away to the mountain of Publion: Template:Proper name to a men's monastery, and Episteme to an abbey.[3] They did not leave their monasteries, and neither saw the other until their deaths.
A fierce persecution arose, and both were brought to trial. When Template:Proper name was martyred under Emperor Decius at Emesa (now Homs, Syria) in 251 AD, Episteme went to his side and was killed with him. His feast day is November 5.[4]
References
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- ↑ Άγιοι Γαλακτίων και Επιστήμη
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- ↑ "Galaction & Episteme Martyrs", The Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
- ↑ Bunson, Matthew and Bunson, Stephen. "Galatian", Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2003 Template:ISBN
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