Saint
Ischyrion
A saint, remembered in the calendars of the Church.
- Era
- 3rd century
Life
Saint Ischyrion was an Egyptian Christian who died a martyr in the persecution of the emperor Decius (249 to 251), in the third century.
The only mention of him is in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, which quotes a letter of Dionysius of Alexandria to Fabius of Antioch. The Eastern tradition does not mention him, but the medieval martyrologies of the West entered him on 22 December, first that of Ado of Vienne and then that of Usuard. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in Western calendars, without synodal canonization.