Byzantine officials executed by the Abbasids, 845 CE
The 42 Martyrs of Amorium (Greek: οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate in the Sack of Amorium in 838 and executed in 845, after refusing to convert to Islam. They are commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church on March 6. Amorium is located at Hisar, Turkey.
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The 42MartyrsofAmorium (Greek: οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate...
refusing to convert to Islam, becoming known as the 42MartyrsofAmorium. The conquest ofAmorium was not only a major military disaster and a heavy personal...
and became canonized as the "42MartyrsofAmorium". Amorium's site was long unknown, though its name appears on many maps of the 18th and 19th centuries...
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the caliph al-Wathiq (r. 842–847).: 41–42 Within a generation they were venerated as the 42MartyrsofAmorium. According to their hagiographer Euodius...
to a version of the martyrdom of the 42MartyrsofAmorium, in 845 he was at the Abbasid Caliphate's capital of Samarra, with several of his men. In 859...
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information is later invention. In 838, however, during the Amorium campaign, the armies of Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842) converged and met at the city;...
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generally successful, culminating with a resounding victory in the Sack ofAmorium. The Byzantines responded by sacking Damietta in Egypt, and Al-Mutawakkil...
return to secular life. March 6 – 42 captured Byzantine officials from Amorium are executed at Samarra, then the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, after repeated...
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Maximian. In 591, the Khagan of the Avars captured the city. He burned the church and destroyed the relics of the martyr. in looting their silver casing...
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