Abadios

Saint Abadios, martyr, was a soldier from Egypt who confessed Christ in the time of the emperor Diocletian and was thrown from a high cliff. He is commemorated on 20 January. Our sources know him from the Jacobite Arabic Synaxarium, used in the Syriac Orthodox Church. They show no canonization of him in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Jacobite Arabic Synaxarium is a volume of lives of saints, first published in French in 1904 by René Basset in the Patrologia Orientalis. It is not to be confused with the Coptic Synaxarium, though some lives seem alike and both use the Egyptian calendar.

According to this source, Abadios was born at Bilgai in Egypt. He was a soldier of native stock and professed his faith in Jesus Christ in the time of Diocletian, at Khalakhis. He was martyred by being thrown from a rock. Another source places him at Bilgai, not at Khalakhis, and speaks of a high cliff from which he was thrown. His day of commemoration is 20 January. He is not to be confused with Abakuh, another martyr of Egypt, commemorated on 23 January, with eight companions.