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Saint

Athanasius the Roman

the Senator

A Roman senator who lived at Clysma, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
July 18old style July 31
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Athanasius the Roman was a senator, and the Greek synaxarion connects him with the place called Clysma. He is commemorated on 18 July in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). The sources consulted preserve no narrative of his life; the name of the place and the title of senator are the only reference points.

Commemorated the same day July 18