Hieromartyr
Publius of Athens
Bishop of Athens
Bishop of Athens in the 2nd century, venerated as a martyr.
- Feast
- January 21old style February 3
- Reposed
- 2002nd century
- Place
- Athens
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Hieromartyr Publius of Athens was bishop of Athens, after Saint Narcissus, in the second century. Tradition counts him among the Seventy Apostles and regards him as a disciple of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite. He ruled his flock as a good shepherd, and at the end gave his life for his rational sheep, completing his work by a martyr's death during the persecution of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 to 180).
He is commemorated on 13 March (new style) and in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles, on 4 January.
Commemorated the same day January 21
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