05 Works, Today, March 29th, is Saints Jonas and Barachisius’s Day, With Footnotes – #87

King Sapor of Persia, in the year 327, raised a bloody persecution against the Christians and laid waste their churches and monasteries. Jonas and Barachisius, two brothers of the city Beth-Asa, hearing that several Christians were under sentence of death at Hubaham, went there to encourage and serve them. Fortified by these words, nine of that number received the crown of martyrdom…

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