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Martyr

Donatus

A martyr commemorated with Saints Polyeuctus and Victor.

Feast
May 21old style June 3
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Donatus the Martyr is commemorated on 21 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) in the group of the martyrs Polyeuctus, Victorinus (in the Greek list, Victor) and Donatus, on the day of Saints Constantine and Helen. The English calendar places them at Caesarea in Cappadocia.

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or the manner of his death. In the Greek list of the following day, 22 May, another Donatus appears, among the hieromartyrs Boethianus, Donatus and Zacharias.

Commemorated the same day May 21