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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Eleutherius of Paris

Deacon of Paris

Deacon martyred at Paris with Saint Denis and Rusticus in the persecution of the 3rd century.

Feast
October 9old style October 22
Reposed
1103rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Eleutherius, hieromartyr, was a deacon at Paris and suffered for Christ together with Saint Denis (held by some sources to be the Areopagite, by others the bishop of Paris) and the martyr Rusticus. According to some sources it happened in the persecution of Domitian, and according to others in the third century.

After prison and torments, he was beheaded with a blunt axe. On the date of his death there are great differences among the sources. Christians honour his memory on 3 October, while our Menaion data shows 9 October.

Some think that Eleutherius of Paris should be identified with Dionysius the Areopagite. In a few sources this martyr is mentioned as Eleutherius of Tournai.

Commemorated the same day October 9