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Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion

Also known as Cornelius of Caesarea

The first Gentile received into the Church by Saint Peter, as recorded in Acts; later tradition remembers him as a bishop and martyr.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints