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Herewith a link to last year's "Saints of the day" for 14. December (including Heron, Ater, Isidore, and Dioscorus; Drosis / Drousilla / Drusina / [erroneously] Drusus of Antioch; Nicasius of Reims, Eutropius of Reims, and companions; Agnellus of Naples; Venantius Fortunatus; and Folcuin of Thérouanne):
14. December is also the feast day of:
Ares, Primus, and Elias (d. 308). We know about these martyrs of the Great Persecution solely from a brief notice in Eusebius' _De martyribus Palaestinae_ (Syriac version: 36-37; abbreviated version in Greek: 10. 1). They were among a group of Egyptians who, traveling through Palestine toward Cilicia, where they intended to bring aid to persecuted Christians, were stopped outside the gates of Ascalon and, having stated the nature of their mission, were arrested as malefactors. Seemingly still at Ascalon, they were brought before the governor of the province and received harsh sentences. Three were sentenced to death: Ares by fire and Primus (in the Greek version he's called Promus, presumably through a corruption in the archetype of the surviving textual witnesses) and Elias by decapitation. Their sentences were carried out on this day. Thus far Eusebius.
Best,
John Dillon
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