Abachum
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| Saint Abachum | |
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| Born | Persia |
| Died | 270 |
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| Beatified | |
| Canonized | |
| Major shrine | Rome |
| Feast | Formerly February 19 |
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His family's assistance to the Christians exposed them to the imperial vengeance; they were seized and delivered to the judge Muscianus, who, unable to persuade them to abjure their faith, condemned them to various tortures. After failing in torture, Maris and his two sons were beheaded at a place called Nymphae Catabassi, thirteen miles from Rome, and their bodies burnt. Martha was instead cast into a well.
A Roman lady named Felicitas, having succeeded in securing the half-consumed remains of the father and sons and also the mother's body from the well, had the sacred relics secretly interred in a catacomb, on the thirteenth before the Kalends of February (January 20).
Their relics were found at Rome in 1590 and are now kept principally at Rome; part in the church of Saint Adrian, part in that of Saint Charles, and in that of Saint John of Calybite. Eginhart, son-in-law and secretary of Charlemagne, deposited a portion of these relics, which had been sent him from Rome, in the abbey of Selghenstadt, of which he was the founder.
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