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Profile
Imperial Roman senator. Chamberlain to Emperor Maximian Galerius at Constantinople. Convert to Christianity, after which he withdrew from the imperial court to his country estate in Bithynia. The persecutions caught up with him there, though. Martyr.
- beheaded c.305 in Bithynia
- buried the place of executions, and a church was built over his grave
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Eleutherius of Bithynia”. Saints.SQPN.com. 23 November 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-eleutherius-of-bithynia/>