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• Forty Armenian Martyrs
Details on the story of the Forty Martyrs, who died near Sebaste in 320.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0310.htm#seba

• Forty Martyrs
Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia about this group of soldiers who, for professing Christianity, were ordered by the prefect to lie naked on a frozen lake. One of these threw himself into a warm bath which had been set up for defectors, but one of
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153a.htm

• On the Holy Forty Martyrs
A homily by St. Basil the Great. Translated by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
http://www.cybercom.net/~htm/forty_martyrs.htm

• The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/40MAR.htm

• Two Homilies Concerning the Forty Martyrs
A two-part homily delivered on successive days by St. Gregory of Nyssa, in praise of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~salomon/nyssa/martyrs.htm