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Martyr

Danax

A martyr commemorated with Barbarus, Demetrion, Donatus, Therinus and Mesirus.

Feast
May 6old style May 19
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Danax the Martyr is commemorated on 6 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Barbarus, Danax, Demetrion, Donatus, Therinus and Mesirus. Of Danax, Mesirus and Therinus (also called Thirianos) the synaxarion says that they suffered by the sword; their memory was kept at the place of their martyrdom, called "the Second".

The sources consulted give no other details about their life.

Commemorated the same day May 6