Agathangelus
Life and witness
In the same place, of St. Agathangelus, who suffered the same day under Lucius, president.
Alban Butler: January–March · ST. AGATHANGELUS,
THE fellow-martyr of St. Clement, bishop of Ancyra. His relics, with those of St. Clement, lay in a church in the suburbs of Constantinople, now called Pera; but were brought into the West when that city was taken by the Latins.
Baring Gould January · with Clement, one Agathangelus and many others, men, women, and boys
S. Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, was the son of a heathen father and a Christian mother. When Clement was ten years old, his mother died. Before her death, she summoned him to her side, and urged him not to desert Christ, whatever sufferings he might be called on to endure for His sake. Being possessed of private means, on coming of age, he adopted a number of poor boys, and educated them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. He was at length ordained Bishop of Ancyra, his native city. In the persecution of Diocletian, he was taken and brought before the governor. He was treated with great barbarity, being torn with hooks, and his teeth and jaw broken with a large stone. As he lay among other prisoners that night in the jail, a bright light filled it, and the prisoners saw a man enter in dazzling garments, who held in his hand the Holy Eucharist, and therewith he communicated the bishop. But whether he were mortal priest, or an angel of God, no man knows. Along with Clement, one Agathangelus and many others, men, women, and boys suffered for Christ, whose names are written in the Book of Life.
Biographical overview
Agathangelus is the Latinized form of the Greek name Agathangelos (Greek: Αγαθάγγελος). Agathangelus or Agathangelos is the name of: Agathangelus of Rome (died 312), Christian martyr Agathangelos (c. 5th century CE), possibly a pseudonym, the biographer of Gregory the Illuminator Agathangelus of Constantinople (1769–1832), Patriarch of Constantinople Agathangelos, a fictional 13th-century monk to whom prophecies were attributed by Theoklitos Polyeidis (1698–1759) Agathangelos Xirouchakis (1872–1958), Greek Orthodox cleric and historian Agathangelos Tsiripidis (born 1963), Greek boxer
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Ibidem sancti Agathangeli, qui eodem die, sub Lucio Prseside, passus est.