Saint Didymus of Alexandria

Memorial

• 28 April

Profile

Rescued Saint Theodora of Alexandria by trading clothes with her at the house of prostitution where she’d been sentenced. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

• beheaded in 304 in Alexandria, Egypt

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• New Catholic Dictionary
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Didymus of Alexandria“. Saints.SQPN.com. 27 April 2013. Web. 21 May 2013. <>