Thraseas of Eumeneia

Saint Thraseas of Eumeneia was bishop of Eumeneia in Phrygia (Asia Minor) and died as a martyr about 170, in the time of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. According to Polycrates of Ephesus and Jerome, he suffered at Smyrna, where he was buried; the Life of Polycarp, attributed to Pionius, mentions his tomb. In a letter of about 190, Polycrates numbers him among the bishops of Asia, between Polycarp and Sagaris, so his date is placed around 160. He kept Pascha on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan, according to the tradition of Asia, and, according to Eusebius, he opposed the Montanist heresy. He is remembered on 27 October, in the Orthodox Church and in the Roman Martyrology.