Martyr
Gelasius
the Actor
A mime actor who confessed Christ, a martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 27old style March 12
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Gelasius was a mime, that is, an actor, by trade. When he was ordered to mock the baptism of Christians, he, like Porphyry the mime (4 November), was baptized and put to the sword.
A verse of the synaxarion plays on the meaning of his name: the one who was about to laugh laughed at error, and washed, Gelasius, your head was cut off. He is commemorated on 27 February (new style) alongside Nesius and the venerable Timothy.
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