Potamon

Holy Hieromartyr Potamon was bishop of Heraclea in Egypt and a zealous defender of the right faith and of the great Athanasius. He suffered in the year 340, killed by the Arian heretics.

In 310 he was arrested and imprisoned in the mines, in the pagan persecution. He took part in the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea and in the Synod of Tyre in 335. He received the crown of martyrdom in the year 340 at the hands of the followers of Arius. He is commemorated on 18 May, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).