Saint Agathius the Martyr

Memorial

• 18 January

Profile

One of a group of eight missionaries who worked in eastern Egypt. They were sufficiently successful that they were arrested and murdered for being “disturbers of public order”; only Agathius’s name has come down to us. Martyr.

Died

• burned at the stake in eastern Egypt

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Agathius the Martyr”. Saints.SQPN.com. 10 May 2012. Web. 25 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-agathius-the-martyr/>