Name
Ploutarchos, Herakleides, Heron, Herais, Serenos, pupils of Origen and martyrs of Alexandria
Saint ID
S00940
Reported Death Not Before
200
Reported Death Not After
220
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
| ID | Title | E01853 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (6.1-4), mentions the martyrdoms in early 3rd century Alexandria (Egypt) of *Leonides (father of Origen and martyr of Alexandria, S00939), and of Origen's pupils *Ploutarchos, Serenos, Herakleides, Heron, another Serenos, Herais (all pupils of Origen and martyrs of Alexandria,S00940), and *Basileides (martyr of Alexandria associated with Potamiaina, S00945). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E04865 | 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 28 June. |
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