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1900th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Martian In 2022 the Vatican celebrates the 1900th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Mercian, the first bishop of Tortona. who suffered martyrdom in 122 during the persecution of Emperor Hadrian. According to tradition, the figure of Saint Mercian is tied on the one hand to the first disciples of Jesus, and on the other hand to the very first evangelizers of the Po Valley. He came from a pagan family and was convened by the Apostle Saint Barnabas, a companion of Saint Paul on his missionary journeys. He would have been continued then in the Christian faith by Saint Syrns, the famous first Bishop of Pavia. and one of the most active sowers of the truth in the lands of northern Italy. In 1875 Baron Guidobono Cavalchini Garofoli had a new chapel built on the site of Marcian's martyrdom for the stkbiations marking the 1800 years since the beginning of the episcopate of the holy martyr. The stamp depicts a portion of polychrome stained-glass window representing the beheading of the Saint, placed in the apse of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Guard in Tonne, built by Saint Luigi Orion between 1926 and 1931. <br><br>

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