Aedesius
Aedesius or Aidesios († 306 in Alexandria ) was a pupil of Pamphilus of Caesarea and a martyr during the Diocletian persecution of Christians . He is venerated as a saint .
Life
According to Eusebius , who reports on him in his book On the Martyrs in Palestine , Aedesius came from Lycia and was the brother of Apphianus , who was martyred in Caesarea Maritima in 306 . Aedesius had indefinitely been sentenced to forced labor in the mines of Palestine and went to Alexandria after his release. There he went against the Praefectus Aegypti , Sossianus Hierocles . This well-known persecutor of Christians had handed over Christian women to brothel owners and mistreated male Christians. Aedesius attacked Hierocles not only with words, but also physically. He was then arrested, sentenced to death by drowning, and thrown into the sea.
His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is April 8th.
literature
- Bernhard Kötting : Aidesios . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957, Sp. 226 .
Web links
- Joachim Schäfer: Ädesius of Alexandria in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints (accessed on March 22, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Gwynn, Oliver Nicholson: Hierocles, Sossianus. In: Oliver Nicholson (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Volume 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, p. 719.
- ↑ Eusebius, On the Martyrs in Palestine 5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aedesius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aidesios (Greek form of name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Christian saint and martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 306 |
| Place of death | Alexandria |