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Diodorus of Aphrodisias
martyr at Aphrodisias
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 30 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Aphrodisias in Caria, in present-day Turkey, Saints Diodorus and Rhodopianus, martyrs, who, during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, were stoned by their own fellow citizens.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 30 April as a martyr at Aphrodisias in Caria, stoned by his own fellow citizens under the emperor Diocletian.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 30 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Re576f1b4 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.