St. Epicharis. September 27

St. Epicharis

Feastday: September 27
Death: 300

Martyr, said to be the wife of a Roman senator. She was martyred in Byzantium.

This article is about the Christian martyr. For other uses, see Epicharis (disambiguation).

Epicharis is the name of two Christianmartyrs.

250

Her feast day is 9 January (the day of her martyrdom) in the Roman Catholic Church.^[1]

Born in Africa, she was martyred in 250 with Felix, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, and seven other companions. An Epictetus, a bishop, was recorded by St. Cyprian.

300

Said to be the wife of a Roman senator, she was martyred in Byzantium or Asia Minor in 300. Her feast day is September 27 in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.^[2]

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.^[3]