Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Ado, Usuardus, Notker. The Menology of the emperor Basil on April 14th; but in the Menaea on April 17th. Authority ^ - Sozomen, Hist Eccles., lib. ii.. c. 8, 9. Also the Genuine Acts, published by Assemani, written in Chaldee by S. Maruthas.] |AINT SIMEON, bishop of Seleucia and Ctesiphon in Persia, was accused, about the year 344, to king Sapor, of being a friend of the Roman emperor, and in secret correspondence with him. This accusation exceedingly exasperated Sapor against the Christians in his dominions, and he ordered the execution of all the Christian priests. Simeon was laden with chains, and was brought before him. The king endeavoured to lorce him to adore the sun, but finding him resolute, he ordered him and a hundred other Christians to lose their heads.

S. Simeon was the son of a fuller, and had been the disciple of Papas, bishop of Ctesiphon, and had been made his coadjutor [an assistant bishop who will succeed the current one] in 316. He sent a priest to the Council of Nicaea, to act as his deputy, as he was unable to attend himselfi April *i.] S. Anselm.