Abibus
Martyrological notice
There also, the passion of St. Abibus, deacon, who under Licinius, emperor, and Lysanias, president, being first torn with iron claws, was after cast into the fire.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 13, November, Pt. 1 · SS. GURIAS, SAMONAS, AND ABIBUS, MM.
SS. GURIAS, SAMONAS, AND ABIBUS, MM.
(a.d. 299.)
[Modem Roman Martyrology. Greek Menaea and Menologies on the same day. Authority : — An Oration by Arethas, B. of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Also two Orations by James, B. of Sarug, in Assemani, Bib. Orient, i. p. 329, and Metaphrastes.]
N the persecution of Diocletian, Antoninus, governor of Edessa, arrested Gurias and Samo- nas, two Christians of that city, and thrust them into prison. On their refusal to sacrifice to the gods, he wrote to Diocletian to know what he had better do. The emperor ordered Musonius, prefect of Antioch, to go to Edessa, and try the glorious confessors of Jesus Christ. Musonius accordingly went thither, and Gurias and Samonas were brought before him. As they refused to bum incense to Jupiter, he had each suspended by one hand, with a stone
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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Edessae, in Mesopotamia, passio sancti Abibi Diaconi, qui sub Licinio Imperatore et Lysania Praeside, unguibus laceratus, in ignem conjectus est.