Aristides

According to the Greek synaxarion, Saint Aristides was an Athenian nobleman, a philosopher of a famous Athenian family, who lived in the 2nd century in the time of the Emperor Hadrian. He was baptized by Saint Dionysius and Saint Hierotheus and wrote to Hadrian an apology for the persecuted Christians. Persecuted in turn, and Hadrian being absent, he went to Rome, where he defended himself, and was then taken to Athens, where he was hung up in the marketplace and received the crown of martyrdom. The synaxarion places this suffering on 13 September 120. Saint Jerome, according to the same source, wrote a eulogy of him and called him equal to the apostles.

He is commemorated on 13 September. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.