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Hieromartyr

Pelusius

Presbyter of Alexandria

A presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411 and the Roman Martyrology.

Feast
April 7old style April 20
Era
unknown
Place
Alexandria
Order
Martyrs

Life

Pelusius was a presbyter at Alexandria and a martyr, a saint of the undivided Church.

He is commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411 on 7 April, by the Julian calendar (old style), as "presbyter at Alexandria", and the Latin Hieronymian Martyrology and the Roman Martyrology name him in the same city. No account of his life or of the manner of his suffering has survived.

Commemorated the same day April 7