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Hieromartyr

Polius

A hieromartyr of the undivided Church, commemorated in Western calendars.

Feast
May 21old style June 3
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Polius is commemorated in the martyrology of Usuard together with Timothy and Eutychius the deacon, who preached the word of the Lord in Mauretania Caesariensis, in North Africa, and received together the crown of martyrdom. The same martyrology, on the same day, 21 May, also commemorates Polyeuctus, Victor and Donatus of Caesarea in Cappadocia and Secundinus of Córdoba.

No other details of his life are preserved in the sources at hand. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church, by the Western calendar (new style).

Commemorated the same day May 21