Saint Basiliscus of Pontus

Memorial

• 3 March

Profile

May have been a slave or soldier. One of a large group of martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Galerius. No other information has survived.

Died

• martyred in 308 in Pontus

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson