The Holy Martyr Uar and seven Christian teachers lived in Egypt during the period of special persecution of Christians (the end of the III – beginning of the IV century). Uar was a military commander and a secret Christian. He helped many persecuted and imprisoned Christians. When he visited prisons at night, he brought food to the prisoners, bandaged wounds, and encouraged them.
One day, he spent the whole night talking to seven Christian teachers who had been sentenced to death, who had previously been beaten and kept hungry. In the morning, when the convicts were led to execution, Uar went with them. The judge, seeing the special firmness of Uar's faith, ordered that he be brutally beaten, during which the holy martyr died. Then the Christian teachers were beheaded. That was in 307.
The Church remembers the martyrs of Uar of Egypt and the seven Christian teachers.
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