''Synaxaire Arabe-Jacobite'' is a volume containing biographies of several saints. These include: Abadios, a

martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...

of the

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. He was born at Bilgai in

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. He was a native soldier of the army who professed his faith in

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during the reign of

Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...

at Khalakhis. He was martyred by being thrown into a rock. His

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is on January 20.

Holweck, F. G. Frederick George Holweck (born Friedrich Georg Holweck; 29 December 1856 – 15 February 1927) was a German-American Catholic parish priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian. Monsignor Holweck contributed some articles to the ''Catho ...

, ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1924 Abakuh (also known as Apa Kauh), another

of the Christian church. He was born at Bamujeh in the

Al Fayyum Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop, ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...

area of

. He was a zealous Christian who was martyred for his Christianity with eight companions. His

is January 23. He is referenced in the ''Synaxaire Arabe-Jacobite''.

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