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Antiochus of Sulcis

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Saint
name	Antiochus
image	Processione Sant'Antioco martire 2015.jpg
caption	Procession of Saint Antiochus in Sant'Antioco
titles	Martyr
birth_date	1st century
birth_place	Mauretania or
Sebastea, Cappadocia
(modern-day Sivas, Turkey)
death_date	c. 127 AD
death_place	Sulcis, Roman Sardinia
(modern-day Italy)
venerated_in	Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
major_shrine
feast_day	December 13 (Catholicism)
July 16 (Orthodoxy)
attributes	Palm of martyrdom
patronage	Sant'Antioco, Sardinia

|honorific-prefix = Saint Sebastea, Cappadocia (modern-day Sivas, Turkey) (modern-day Italy) Eastern Orthodox Church July 16 (Orthodoxy)

Antiochus of Sulcis (died c. 127 AD) was an early Christian martyr of Sardinia. The island and town of Sant'Antioco are named after him.

History and legend

Antiochus is a figure associated with the Sardinian mines from which the Romans extracted minerals and precious metals; the Romans condemned prisoners of war and Christians to work these mines.

His legend states that he was a physician during the reign of Hadrian. He had converted many people in Cappadocia and Galatia to the Christian religion, and was therefore tortured and sent into exile by the authorities. Antiochus was condemned to work the mines on the island that now bears his name. The island, inhospitable and isolated during this period, was named Plumbaria at the time, after its source of lead (plumbum). Antiochus, however, converted his jailer Cyriacus in Sardinia, and had built a small underground oratory on Plumbaria, and was thus condemned to death there.

Veneration

Some sources state that he was martyred with Cyriacus at Sebaste rather than at Sardinia. The Martyrologium Romanum places the martyrdom "around the 4th century". The church in the island capital Sant'Antioco, named after Antiochus, was dedicated to him in the 5th century; Antiochus' tomb was in the catacomb beneath it.

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Bibliography

References

[https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienA/Antiochus6.html Schäfer, Joachim. "Antiochus von Sulci", Ökumenischen Heiligenlexikon]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20191223184618/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org:80/ss/0715.shtml Saint of the Day, July 15]

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