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Pelusius of Alexandria
priest and martyr at Alexandria
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 7 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Commemoration of Saint Hegesippus, who lived at Rome from the papacy of Anicetus until that of Eleutherius and composed in simple language a history of the Church from the Passion of the Lord down to his own times.
At Alexandria in Egypt, Saint Pelusius, priest and martyr.
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 7 April as a priest and martyr at Alexandria in Egypt.
Sources
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