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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Atēr, Decian martyr of Egypt

Saint ID

S00228

Reported Death Not Before

250

Reported Death Not After

251

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00277Eusebius 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.