Skip to content

Martyr

Basiliscus the Elder

An aged martyr, called the Elder, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
July 29old style August 11
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Basiliscus the Elder is commemorated on 29 July in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with the martyrs Callinicus the Cilician, Mamas and John. The epithet "the Elder" comes from the synaxarion. The sources preserve no account of his life or martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day July 29