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Abdecalas
Saint Abdecalas (or Abdelas) was a Persian priest of advanced age who, together with another priest, St Ananias, and about a hundred other Christians, was killed under the Persian ruler Shapur II on Good Friday, 345. The Greek historian Sozomenos estimates the number of Christians martyred during the forty-year reign of Shapur at 16,000.
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