Name
Hesychios, bishop and martyr of Egypt
Saint ID
S00248
Reported Death Not Before
304
Reported Death Not After
311
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
| ID | Title | E00318 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.13 and 9.6), gives a list of nineteen Christian leaders martyred alongside numerous other Christians in various regions of the East during the tetrarchic persecutions (304-313). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E03680 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 16 March *Euphrosyne (ascetic in Alexandria, 5th c., S01373) or *Euphrasia (nun in Constantinople, ob. c. 410, S01374), and *Hesychios (possibly the bishop and martyr of Egypt, S00248). | E06234 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Petros (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247) recounts the protagonist's last days, the people's devotion to him, his resistance of Arius' attempts to have his excommunication lifted, his martyrdom, and the tumult surrounding his burial in a western suburb of Alexandria. The story also features his successor *Alexandros (bishop of Alexandria, ob. 326/328, S00733) and mentions the four martyred Egyptian bishops commemorated by Eusebius of Caesarea: *Phileas (bishop of Thmuis, martyr of Alexandria, S00125), *Hesychios (S00248), *Pachomios (Pachymios, S00156) and *Theodoros (S02704). It also provides details about the martyrium and tomb of *Mark the Evangelist (S00293) in the quarter of Alexandria called ta Boukolou. Written in Alexandria, probably in the 5th century, possibly with later additions by the early 7th century. |
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