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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Asterius of Ostia

A priest slain for Christ at Ostia in Italy around 223.

Feast
October 21old style November 3
Reposed
2233rd century
Place
Ostia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Hieromartyr Asterius of Ostia was a priest at Rome in the time of Pope Callistus. According to the tradition kept in the apocryphal Acts of Saint Callistus, he secretly buried the pope's body, and for this reason was thrown into the Tiber at Ostia by order of the Emperor Alexander, around the year 223. The Christians recovered his body and buried it at Ostia, and his relics are now in the cathedral there.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 21 October (new style, Western calendar).

Commemorated the same day October 21