July 5 · Martyr

St. Athanasius

St. Athanasius, Deac

Traditional feast

July 5
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

Remembered as · Martyr · about A.D. 453
Patronage · None recorded in our sources

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on July 5 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Not in the Greek Menaea. Authorities: — Mention by Nicephorus Callistus, lib, xv. c. 9. (d. 1341), and before him by Theophanes in his Chronographia (d. 817). Marcian the Emperor, a contemporary, in his epistle to the Church ot Jerusalem, mentions the circumstance of the murder of the Deacon, without giving his name.J Athanasius, deacon of the church in Jerusalem, under the holy orthodox bishop Juvenal, was savagely murdered, his body dragged through the streets, and his flesh cast to the dogs, in the riots occasioned by the Eutychians, under the monk Theodosius, who drove Juvenal from his see, and installed himself in his room. 1 1 See SS. Flavian and Elias, July 4th, p. 99. u«*rs.

Feast days

Feast: July 5

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Traditional (1914 / pre-1969) · July 5 · Baring-Gould (1897) ·
Current (General Roman Calendar / Roman Martyrology) · Not verified yet · Unverified · not found

Sources

Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible)

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.