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Martyrdom of Dasius

Μαρτύριον τοῦ ἁγίου Δασίου · Μαρτύριον τοῦ ἁγίου Δασίου

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Contents

  1. 0Title of the account.
  2. 1The soldiers' custom: a chosen man plays king for thirty days at the festival of Cronos and is then put to death.
  3. 2The lot falls on Dasius.
  4. 3The author condemns Christians who keep the pagan New Year masquerades.
  5. 4Dasius resolves to die for Christ rather than for Cronos.
  6. 5Dasius refuses and is imprisoned and brought before the legate Bassus.
  7. 6Dasius gives his name as “Christian.”
  8. 7Dasius declares he serves the heavenly King.
  9. 8Dasius confesses the Trinity and refuses the imperial images.
  10. 9Dasius will keep the faith despite threats.
  11. 10Dasius refuses a delay.
  12. 11Condemned, Dasius scatters the incense and overturns the idols.
  13. 12Dasius is beheaded at Durostorum on 20 November.

About this work

Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Anonymous record of the trial and death of the martyrs.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
303–304 (probable)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
martyrdom
Reference system
chapter, following Gebhardt's numbering as printed; 0 = title. Chapter numbers the OCR could not read are not separate refs: their text lies inside the preceding ref.
SBL abbreviation
Act.Not yet checked
Text from
Rudolf Knopf, ed., Ausgewählte Märtyrerakten, 2nd ed. (Tübingen, 1913), no. 16, pp. 82–85 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))