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Forty Holy Virgin-Martyrs & Ammon the Deacon

Also known as the 40 virgin-martyrs of Heraclea with their teacher Ammon

Forty Christian women of Heraclea in Thrace, taught by the deacon Ammon, martyred together under Licinius (321-323)

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