Martyr
Ananias of Arbela
A saint honored at Arbela, of whom little is known.
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- Feast
- December 1old style December 14
- Reposed
- 3454th century
- Place
- Iraq
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Ananias of Arbela was a Christian of Arbela (now Erbil, in Iraq), a martyr in the persecution of the Persian king Shapur II in the 4th century. Arrested by order of the chief magus Ardisag, he was cruelly scourged three times and left in the street for dead; the faithful carried him home at night, where he died, in the year 345. He is commemorated on 1 December. The date follows the Western calendar (new style).
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