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Martyrs Agathopodes the Deacon and Theodulus the Reader at Thessalonica
Also known as Agathopous · Agathopodes · Theodulus the Reader
Clergy of the church at Thessalonica — Agathopodes an aged deacon and Theodulus a young reader — who confessed Christ during the persecution under Diocletian and Maximian and were drowned in the sea for refusing to deny their faith.
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Notes
OCA groups the two as one paired commemoration.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints