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Martyr

Dionysius

A martyr commemorated with Saint Theodore of Perge and those with him.

Feast
April 19old style May 2
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Dionysius the Martyr is commemorated on 19 April (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the holy Martyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and the martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates and Dionysius. The English calendar gives for them the years 138-161.

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death.

Commemorated the same day April 19