Epimachus Of Pelusium, Saint
EPIMACHUS OF PELUSIUM, SAINT A martyr in the great persecutions of DIOCLETIAN about 303 (feast day: 14 Bashans). He was of considerable prominence in Christian Egypt. Sa‘id ibn al- Bitriq (876-939) writes in his Annals (Cheikho, 1906, Vol. 1, p. 16): “In the days of both Diocletian and Maximian thousands of martyrs died; they tortured …