Saint Alexander of Pydna

Also known as

• Alessandro
• Alexandros

Memorial

• 14 March

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Priest in Pydna, Macedonia (in modern Greece). Martyr by Maximian Galerius for publicly refusing to sacrifice to idols.

Died

• beheaded c.305 in Macedonia
• a fresh spring of water poured from the place of his execution
• buried in Thessalonica
• skull taken to the Great Lavra on Mount Athos in the mid 10th-century

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Representation

• leading four men in white clothing into heaven

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Dominican Adaptations from the Catalogus Hagiographicus OP
• Kirken i Norge
• Medieval Religion Listserv, by John Dillon
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology
• Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Saint Alexander of Pydna“. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 March 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>