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name: "Saint Athanasius of Jerusalem"
id: "HIST-SAINT-ATHANASIUS-OF-JERUSALEM-001"
remembered_for: "Deacon of Jerusalem, martyred by heretics for defending the Council of Chalcedon (Roman Martyrology, 5 July)."
birth_coordinate: "Not recorded in the source"
death_coordinate: "Jerusalem (put to the sword after torments, for defending the Council of Chalcedon)"
eras: ["Council of Chalcedon"]
linked_figures: []
cosmic_vault_pillars:
  - "Historical Profiles"
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source: "The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. (5 July)"
source_url: "https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft"
---

# Saint Athanasius of Jerusalem

## From the Roman Martyrology

*Roman Martyrology (English translation, Baltimore, 1916), 5 July:*

> At Jerusalem, St. Athanasius, a deacon, who was apprehended by the heretics for defending the Council of Chalcedon, and after experiencing all kinds of torments, was put to the sword.

*No further public-domain account of this saint was found; nothing beyond the Martyrology entry is given.*

## Sources

- The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. Entry for 5 July. https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft (Transcribed from the archive.org scan text of the 1916 Baltimore edition; obvious OCR misreadings corrected, original misprints kept and marked [sic].)