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d. 901, feastday: February 12
d.c. 750, feastday: December 5
d. 362, Feastday: September 12, (Catholic). Martyr with Tatian and Theodolus in Phrygia. They were burned to death for destroying pagan idols
Alexander (Alexandros), a saint and martyr, whose memory is celebrated by the Romish church, together with the other martyus of Lyons and Vienne, on the second of June. He was a native of Phrygia, and a physician by profession, and was put to death, A. D. 177, during the persecution that raged against the churches of Lyons and Vienne under the emperor Marcus Aurclius. (Epist. Eccles. Lugdun. et Vienn. apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. v. 1. p. 163.) He was condemned, together with another Christian, to be devoured by wild beasts in the amphitheatre, and died (as the historian expresses it) "neither uttering a groan nor a syllable, but conversing in his heart with God." (Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum ; Martyrol. Roman. ed. Baron.; Acta Sanctorum, June 2.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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