Saint Peleus
group of Christian martyrs
Feast: 19 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Peleus was an early Christian martyr. An Egyptian bishop, Peleus was one of four Christians who led Mass for the persecuted Christians condemned to work in the Palestinian quarries in the wake of the Diocletianic Persecution. When the Roman emperor Galerius learned of this, he had Peleus burned alive along with the other leaders (Nilus, Elias and Patermutius), and the Christians dispersed to mines in Cyprus and Lebanon. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Coptic Orthodox Church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q12860227 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Peleus (CC BY-SA)
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