Martyr
Bassus
A martyr of Heraclea, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- November 20old style December 3
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Heraclea
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Bassus is commemorated on 20 November (new style, the Greek calendar) together with forty-two other martyrs who suffered with him at Heraclea in Thrace. The Greek source notes that the saint's existence, biographical data and the day of the feast have not been verified, and that no details of their lives are known.
Only the name of Bassus, the place Heraclea and the fact of their witness by martyrdom are preserved.
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