Epicharis is the name of two

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martyrs.

250

Her feast day is 9 January (the day of her martyrdom) in the

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. Born in Africa, she was martyred in 250 with Felix, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, and seven other companions. An

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, a bishop, was recorded by St.

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300

Said to be the wife of a Roman senator, she was martyred in Byzantium or Asia Minor in 300. Her feast day is

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in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. Some sources give her as a lady of a senatorial family, who was scourged and then smitten with the sword in Rome in the persecution of Diocletian.

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