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A Christian from the Most Great island of Tenedos, situated at the entrance of the Dardanelles in the Cyclades archipelago, Saint Avoudimos was arrested in the year of 299 during Diocletian’s persecution and urged to sacrifice to idols. When he remained inflexible in his confession of the true God, he was spreadeagled on four stakes and thrashed by nine soldiers. After having tried unsuccessfully to make him swallow food offered to idols, they scorched him with iron hooks and then beheaded him. The holy Martyr appeared to Diocletian in full daylight, surrounded by a crowd of angelic powers, sword in hand. He stood before the terrified tyrant and said: ‘Here I am, Avoudimos the servant of the true God whom you thought dead; but who, by his power, has carried off the victory against your helpers, there demons.’ Instead of giving in to this evidence, the tyrant was possessed with fury and had the holy martyr’s body destroyed by fire.
Feast Day: 15th July
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