Abdecalas
Saint Abdecalas | |
|---|---|
| Martyr | |
| Born | probably third century |
| Died | Good Friday, 345 Persia |
| Venerated in | Assyrian Church of the East Chaldean Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | 21 April |
Saint Abdecalas (or Abdelas) was a Persian priest of advanced age who, together with another priest, Saint Ananias, and about a hundred other Christians, was killed under the Persian ruler Shapur II on Good Friday, 345.[1] One of these others was also named Abdecalas. The Greek historian Sozomen estimates the number of Christians martyred during the forty-year reign of Shapur as close to 16,000. The feast day for Saint Abdecalas is 21 April.
Notes
- ^ Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, England (1921). "Saint Abdecelas". The Book of Saints: A dictionary of servants of God canonized by the Catholic church: extracted from the Roman & other martyrologies. A. & C. Black. OCLC 2111254.
References
- Holweck, Frederick George (1924). A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis; London: B. Herder Book Co.
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