Saint Athanasius of Jerusalem
- Born
- Not recorded in the source
- Died
- Jerusalem (put to the sword after torments, for defending the Council of Chalcedon)
- Era
- Council of Chalcedon
From the Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology (English translation, Baltimore, 1916), 5 July:
At Jerusalem, St. Athanasius, a deacon, who was apprehended by the heretics for defending the Council of Chalcedon, and after experiencing all kinds of torments, was put to the sword.
No further public-domain account of this saint was found; nothing beyond the Martyrology entry is given.
Sources
- The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. Entry for 5 July. https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft (Transcribed from the archive.org scan text of the 1916 Baltimore edition; obvious OCR misreadings corrected, original misprints kept and marked [sic].)