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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Pelius of Egypt

Cleric of Egypt, martyred for the faith of Christ.

Feast
September 17old style September 30
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Pelius of Egypt, a bishop, called also Pelius of Tyre, is commemorated on 30 September with the bishop Nilus, the presbyter Zeno, Patermuthius, Elias and other martyrs, a hundred and fifty-⁠one in all, who suffered in the time of the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311). Most were Egyptians, but there were Palestinians among them.

The governor of Palestine, Firmilian, seized a hundred and fifty-⁠six Christians. The holy martyrs had their eyes put out and the sinews of their legs cut, then were put to all kinds of torments. A hundred of them were beheaded, and the rest burned. The Azbyka page gives no details of Pelius individually.

Saint Pelius is commemorated on 30 September, in the new style.

Commemorated the same day September 17