Lucian of Antioch |
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Another native of Antioch, he was born at Samosata and martyred at Nicomedia. He was the teacher and head of a Theological school at Antioch. By that time, he revised the Greek version of the Old Testament and also the four gospels. When the emperor Diocletian began persecutions, he was at Nicomedia by chance, he was imprisoned there for nine years to renounce the Lord, upon his refusal, he was killed there and buried at Drepanum a town near Nicomedia. |

