You suffered your martyrdom. No wonder, you met your maker on the day our Orthodox Church is commemorating the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The places you trod, speak of your sanctity. They became holy. Those who knew you felt the imprint you left on their hearts. A love that knew no boundaries. We will never forget you. For us, you were and will be Sofoula. Bedbound for years, you never grumbled and kept praying for the whole world. Your love knew no boundaries, that's why everyone loved you deeply. We will meet in the eternal homeland ... Goodbye my dear !!!
p.s We are truly strangers on earth passing through two stages: our nine months before birth, and then through whatever the years that the Lord has planned for our stay here until like Father Abraham we are “looking forward to the city with foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:10)
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty (Ancient/Katharevousa Greek Ἅγιοι Τεσσεράκοντα; Demotic: Άγιοι Σαράντα) were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata (Armed with Lightning) whose martyrdom in 320 for the Christian faith is recounted in traditional martyrologies.
They were killed near the city of Sebaste, in Lesser Armenia (present-day Sivas in Turkey), victims of the persecutions of Licinius, who after 316, persecuted the Christians of the East. The earliest account of their existence and martyrdom is given by Bishop Basil of Caesarea (370–379) in a homily he delivered on their feast day.[1] The Feast of the Forty Martyrs is thus older than Basil himself, who eulogised them only fifty or sixty years after their deaths.
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