Abdecalas, Ananias and a Hundred Companions

Abdecalas, Ananias and a Hundred Companions were priests and martyrs in Persia, put to death in 345, in the persecution of King Shapur II.

According to tradition, Simeon, bishop of Seleucia, was arrested by order of the king, refused to worship the sun and was thrown into a narrow prison, where he remained a long time with a hundred other Christians, bishops, priests and clerics. The next day was Good Friday; all his companions were strangled before his eyes and he was beheaded. The priests Abdecalas and Ananias were killed with him, as persons of distinguished merit. One of the others was also named Abdecalas.

They are commemorated on 21 April by the Roman Martyrology, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.