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Anatolius of Nicaea
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 20 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
312
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Nicaea in Bithynia, the holy martyrs Eustace, thespesius, and Anatolius, in the persecution of Maximinus.
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 Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers him on 20 November.
Sources
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 20 November
- Wikidata Q11685713 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.