Acacius of Armenia

Holy Martyr Acacius of Armenia suffered on Mount Ararat in Armenia in the second century. According to Church tradition, he was the leader of an army and died for Christ together with many soldiers, crucified on the mountain. In the Orthodox Church he is commemorated on 22 June (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.

The surviving sources are very short and say no more than tradition does: a confessor of Armenia from the early Christian centuries. The name Acacius means in Greek “without malice”.