Saint Elias of Caesarea

Memorial

• 16 February

Profile

Ministered to Christians who were condemned to work the mines of Cilicia in the persecutions of Galerius Maximianus and Maximin Daza. This exposed Elias’s faith, and he was arrested, tortured and martryed by order of the governor Firmilian.

Born

• Egyptian

Died

• beheaded in 309 at Caesarea in Palestine

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Readings

Firmilian: “Where are you from?”

Elias: “From Jerusalem. Does not Saint Paul say that Jerusalem, Jerusalem on high, is our mother?”

Firmilian: “And where is this Jerusalem on high?”

Elias: “This Jerusalem is the true country of Christians; it is situated in the East, beside the true Sun and only Light.”

Additional Information

• 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 Elias of Caesarea“. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 February 2013. Web. 19 May 2013. <>