Flashcards: Saints duos

Saints Primus and Felician (Felicianus) (Italian: Primo e Feliciano) were brothers who suffered martyrdom about the year 297 during the Diocletian persecution.

Saints Nereus and Achilleus are two Roman martyr saints.

Saints Gervasius and Protasius (also Saints Gervase and Protase, Gervasis and Prothasis and in French Gervais and Protais) are venerated as Christian martyrs, probably of the 2nd century.

For the musical partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, see Lennon–McCartney John and Paul were saints in the Roman Empire.

Saints Severinus of Sanseverino (or of Septempeda) (d. 550 AD) and Victorinus of Camerino (d. 543 AD) were brothers who were both bishops and hermits of the 6th century.

Saints Aaron and Julius (or Julian, Latin: Aaronus et Iulius/Iulianus) were two British saints who are traditionally held to have been martyred at Caerleon, Wales, during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in 304 AD Along with Saint Alban and Amphibalus, they are the only named martyrs from Roman Britain.

Saints Chrysanthus and Daria (3rd century – c. 283) are saints of the Early Christian period.

Felix and Adauctus (d. 303) were legendary Christian martyrs who were said to have suffered during the Great Persecution during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Saints Marcellinus and Peter (sometimes called Petrus Exorcista; Italian: Marcellino e Pietro) were two 4th century Christian martyrs in the city of Rome.

Saints Nazarius and Celsus (Italian: San Nazaro e San Celso) were two martyrs of whom nothing is known except the discovery of their bodies by Saint Ambrose.

Saints Cyril and Methodius (826-869, 815-885; Greek: Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος; Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи) were two brothers who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries.

Saints Justus and Pastor (Latin: Iustus et Pastor; died c. 304) are venerated as Christian martyrs.

Saint Susanna of Rome (Latin: Susana), according to Christian legend, a Christian martyr whose feast day is 11 August which is the same as Saint Tiburtius.

Saints Victor and Corona are two Christian martyrs.

Sergius (or Serge) and Bacchus were fourth-century Roman Christian soldiers revered as martyrs and saints by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Nabor and Felix (d. c. AD 303) were Christian martyrs though to have been killed during the Great Persecution under the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Saints Vitalis and Agricola (Italian: Santi Vitale e Agricola) are venerated as martyrs, who are considered to have died at Bologna about 304, during the persecution ordered by Roman Emperor Diocletian.

Saints Firmus and Rusticus (Italian: San Fermo e San Rustico) (died ca. 290 AD) are venerated as two martyrs of Verona.

Abadir and Iraja are saints in the Coptic Church.

Abib and Apollo were two Christian ascetics from Akhmim, Egypt.

Saints Felinus and Gratian(us) (sometimes Gratinian(us)) (d. 250 AD) are venerated as martyrs by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

Saints Gordianus and Epimachus were Roman martyrs, who are commemorated on 10 May.

Julietta (Greek: Ἰουλίττα, Aramaic: ܝܘܠܝܛܐ‎‎ Yolitha) and her son Quriaqos (Aramaic: ܡܪܝ ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ ܣܗܕܐ‎‎ Mar Quriaqos Sahada) were martyred in AD 304 in Tarsus according to Christian tradition.

Saints Cyprian and Justina are honored in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy as Christians of Antioch, Pisidia, who in 304, during the persecution of Diocletian, suffered martyrdom at Nicomedia (modern-day İzmit, Turkey) on September 26.

Saints Theodora and Didymus (died 304) are Christian saints whose legend is based on a 4th-century acta and the word of Saint Ambrose.

Saints Rasyphus (Rasiphus) and Ravennus (French: Saints Rasyphe et Raven, Ravenne) (fifth century) are venerated as Christian saints and martyrs.

The Acts of Sharbel or the Acts of Sharbel and of Barsamya is a Syriac Christian martyrdom account about a pagan high priest who was converted to Christianity.

Saints Cyrus and John (Italian: Ciro e Giovanni, Arabic: اباكير ويوحنا‎‎) (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs.

Saints Tiburtius (Latin: Tiburtius et Susana), according to Christian legend, was a Christian martyr.

Abundius and Irenaeus (died 258) were Roman martyrs.

John and Marcianus, were Roman martyrs.

Saints Castus and Emilius (died 250 AD) are venerated as saints and martyrs by the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.

Saint Juventinus or Juventius (died 363) was a member of the imperial guard of Emperor Julian.

Saints Servandus and Cermanus (Germanus) (Spanish: San Servando y San Germán) (d. 305 AD) were Spanish martyrs who are venerated as Christian saints.

Abundius and Abundantius (died ca. 304) are Christian martyrs who were killed during the Diocletian persecution.

Saints Sarbel and Barbe (or Sarbelius and Barbea, Sharbil and Babai, etc.) were legendary Christian martyrs of the city Edessa in Mesopotamia.

Saints Cyrion and Candidus (died 320 AD) are ethnic Armenian saints.

Saints Julian and Basilissa (died ca. 304) were husband and wife.

Zenaida and Philonella were sisters, born into a well-educated Jewish family and said to be cousins of Paul the Apostle.

Symphorian (Symphorianus, Symphorien), Timotheus (Timothy), and Hippolytus of Rome are three Christian martyrs who though they were unrelated and were killed in different places and at different times, shared a common feast day in the General Roman Calendar from at least the 1568 Tridentine Calendar to the Mysterii Paschalis.

Ptolemaeus and Lucius (died ca. 165 AD) are venerated as Christian martyrs and saints, who died during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Saints Lucy and Geminian were venerated on 16 September as saints who died as martyrs in Rome during the persecution of Diocletian in about 290 or 300 or, more precisely, in 304.

Mark and Marcellian (Latin: Marcus and Marcellianus) are martyrs venerated as saints by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Abda and Sabas were two martyrs mentioned in the Menologium der Orthodox-Katholischen Kirche des Morgenlandes by Probst Maltzew.

Abiathar and Sidonia were a legendary Jewish priest of Mtskheta and his daughter.

Abraham and Coprius of Gryazovets (Russian: Авраамий и Коприй Гразовецкий, Abraham and Coprius of Pechenega) founded the Christian monastery at Gryazovets in Russia.

Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev were monks of Kiev.