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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Ortasius of Alexandria

Hieromartyr of Alexandria, remembered in the early martyrologies.

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Feast
May 18old style May 31
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Ortasius of Alexandria was a priest and martyr at Alexandria in Egypt, named with Potamion, Serapion and the other martyrs around them. The sources give no other account. He is a saint of the undivided Church, named in the Roman Martyrology on 18 May (Gregorian calendar).

Commemorated the same day May 18