Hieromartyr Clement Bishop of Ancyra and Agathangelus the Martyr
The Hieromartyr Clement was born in the Galatian city of Ancyra in the year 258, of a pagan father and a Christian mother. Saint Clement was made a reader, and later a deacon. When he was eighteen he was ordained to the holy priesthood, and at age twenty he was consecrated Bishop of Ancyra. Soon afterwards the persecution against Christians under Diocletian (284-305) broke out.
He suffered a great many tortures at the hands of the Imperial authorities, and many came to faith from observing his endurance.
Righteous Father Dionysius of Olympus (1451)
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