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d.c. 475, feastday: March 5
d. 253, feastday: December 21 (Catholic). With companion Dioscorus, martyrs put to death during the persecutions under Emperor Valerian (r. 253-260). Themistocles was a shepherd in Lycia (modern Turkey). He died by beheading after refusing to divulge the hiding place of Dioscorus who was himself later martyred.
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