Hieromartyr
Dioscorides
Presbyter of Alexandria
A presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.
Life
Dioscorides was a presbyter at Alexandria and a martyr, a saint of the undivided Church.
The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates him on 20 August, by the Julian calendar (old style), as "presbyter at Alexandria", and the Latin Hieronymian Martyrology names him in the same city. No account of his life or of the manner of his suffering has survived.
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