Haralambos the Holy Martyr
Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint was a priest of the Christians in Magnesia, the foremost city of Thessaly, in the diocese having the same name. He
contested during the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. At the time of his martyrdom the Saint was 103 years of age.
Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint was a priest of the Christians in Magnesia, the foremost city of Thessaly, in the diocese having the same name. He
contested during the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. At the time of his martyrdom the Saint was 103 years of age.
(also variously Charalampos, Charalambos, Haralampus, Haralampos or Haralambos) was an early Christian bishop in Magnesia, a region of Thessaly, in the diocese of the same name. His name Χαράλαμπος means joyful light in Greek. He lived during the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. It is believed that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Charalampus was 113 years old.
