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Martyr

Heliodorus

A martyr of Africa from the time of the undivided Church.

Feast
May 6old style May 19
Era
4th century
Place
Africa
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Heliodorus suffered in Africa, in the time of the Emperor Diocletian (284-305), together with Venustus and seventy-⁠five other Christians. The Greek synaxarion preserves no other details of their life or the manner of their death.

He is commemorated on 6 May, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece, together with Venustus and the other martyrs.

Commemorated the same day May 6