Dionysius

Holy Martyr Dionysius suffered at Corinth, in the persecution of Decius (249-251) or Valerian (253-259), when Jason was the governor of Greece. He is commemorated on 10 March (new style) together with Quadratus, Anectus, Paul, Cyprian and Crescens.

According to the Menologion of the emperor Basil II, the Christians who were caught were slain, while those who fled hid in the mountains. The mother of Quadratus, from Corinth, fled to the mountain, where she gave birth to him and died, leaving him an infant; Quadratus was fed by clouds that gathered above him. When he grew up, he taught the Christian faith to Anectus, Crescens, Cyprian, Paul and Dionysius, who had taken refuge with him. Anectus, Crescens, Cyprian and Paul were arrested as Christians; Jason tried in various ways to lure them, but they confessed Christ, were tortured and beheaded.

Dionysius was denounced to the governor of Corinth for not obeying the command of the emperors and for despising the gods, preaching a crucified God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who will come to judge the living and the dead. Seized and bound in chains, he confessed Christ in a loud voice and was put to the knife. The calendar also commemorates Marcian on the same day.