Feastday: October 19I was a Christian solider from Kemet, who during persecutions visited other jailed Christians. I helped some monks, seeing the death of one in the prison dungeon.
Death: 307
I requested to take his place. I was arrested. The torturers hung me on a tree. I was finally disemboweled. With me, six Monk martyrs, Cleopatra and her, son, John in 307 A.D.
Authorities beheaded the Monk martyrs the following day. 19 Oct. (Probably the same person Varus, Roman soldier martyred in Upper Kemet (Apori, Ori), under Maximian. I was from Setnuf, Kemet 19 Oct.)
Saint Varus (died ca. 307, Alexandria, Egypt) — early Christian saint, soldier and martyr.
According to his generally reliable and authentic Acts, he was a soldier stationed in Upper Egypt who had the task of guarding a group of monks awaiting execution. When one of the monks died while incarcerated, Varus embraced the Christian faith and asked to be able to fill the place of the deceased. He was taken and hanged from a tree.
Feastday: October 19
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