Apollonius (martyr)
Saint Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος) was a Christian of ancient Rome who was executed in the 2nd century AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor Commodus. He is said to have been a Roman senator. At his trial he mounted a defense of Christianity in the Roman senate, which was afterwards translated into Greek and inserted by church historian Eusebius in his history of the Christian martyrs, but is now lost.[1][2]
He is the same as Saint Apollonius the Apologist.
Nicephorus I of Constantinople confuses this Apollonius with Apollonius, bishop of Ephesus who wrote against the Cataphryges.[3][4][5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Hieronym. Epist. 84, Catalog. 42, 53
- ^ Eusebius, Church History 5.21
- ^ Nikephoros I of Constantinople, 4.26
- ^ Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 53
- ^ Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca vii. p. 163
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 239.
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