Remembered on October 24
St. Arethas and Companions
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
- Arethas: Great Martyr
Arethas was a leader among the Christians of Najran, in southern Arabia. In 523, the ruler of the region, Dhu Nuwas, attacked the city’s Christian community. The Church remembers them together: a whole community, including people whose names have not come down to us. Their remembrance keeps those lives from becoming only a number. It also calls us to pray for people whose faith places them in danger today.
How they died
They died as martyrs: tradition holds that Arethas was beheaded, while others were burned or killed with swords.
- Feast day
- October 24
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on November 6. - Kind of saint
- Martyr, Great Martyr
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