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Isidore of Chios
Egyptian saint
SaintFull write-uphttp://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/1f90b2b0324b586d07f4a19ee7e359faPre-congregation
Feast: 14 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
250
Died
251
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
On the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea, Saint Isidore, martyr, who is believed to have been thrown into a well.
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 Roman Martyrology remembers him on 14 May as a martyr on Chios believed to have been thrown into a well.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 14 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1342994 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Isidore of Chios (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.