Sergius and Bacchus
Roman officers of Syria, martyred under Maximian, among the most venerated military saints of the East.
- Antiquity
- Syria
- Feast day October 7
- † c. 303
- Martyr
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Sergius and Bacchus served in the imperial guard when it was discovered they were Christians: to humiliate them, they were paraded through the city in women's dress. Bacchus died under the blows at Barbalissos; Sergius was taken to Rasafa and beheaded. Their shrine at Rasafa, deep in the Syrian desert, became one of the greatest pilgrimages of the Christian East, so much so that the city took the name Sergiopolis. Their passion, which insists on their inseparability, made them patrons of friendship and of soldiers.
