Name
Metras, martyr of Alexandria
Saint ID
S00045
Reported Death Not Before
250
Reported Death Not After
251
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E00277 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (6.41-42), quotes a letter in Greek by Dionysios, bishop of Alexandria (Egypt), who, in 250/1, informs Phabios, bishop of Antioch (Syria), about martyrdoms in Egypt during the recent Decian persecution; 27 martyrs are named. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E04945 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 8 September. | E07022 | Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (13), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Elias, an Alexandrian, of leprosy at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), even though he had also sought aid from *Metras (martyr of Alexandria, S00045) at his shrine in Alexandria. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615. |
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