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Martyr Alexander the Soldier of Egypt

JULY 09

Saint Alexander suffered with the hosiomartyrs Patermuthius and Copres, during the reign of the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). He was a soldier who witnessed the torture of St Copres, and believed in Christ. He was burned alive.