Galaction and Episteme

Saints

Galaction and Episteme
Martyrdom of Saint Galaction and his wife Saint Episteme at Emesa, from the Menologion of Basil II
Martyrs
Died251 AD
Emesa
Venerated in
Canonized Pre-Congregation
Feast
  • November 5 (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox)

Saint Galaction (also Galaktion, sometimes Galation) was a 3rd-century Syrian Christian, martyred with his wife, Episteme (Epistima), whom he had converted to the Christian faith (Greek: Γαλακτίων και Επιστήμη).

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