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Vue d'une colonne provenant d’Héracléopolis Magna1, capitale du 20e nome de Haute-Égypte, exposée au British Museum.
Saint Potamon
Évêque d'Héraclée en
Égypte et ses compagnons, martyrs à Alexandrie (4ème s.)
Evêque d'Héraclée en Egypte. Il prit part au concile de Nicée où il figura parmi les confesseurs de la foi qui avaient été condamnés aux mines par l'empereur Maximin.
À Alexandrie, vers 303, les saints martyrs Potamon, Ortaise, Sérapion, prêtres,
et leurs compagnons.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7001/Saint-Potamon.html
Also
known as
Potamon of Alexandria
Potamone…
Profile
Bishop of Heraclea, Egypt. Tortured,
mutilated and crippled for his faith during
the persecutions of
Maximinus Daia in the early 4th
century. Attended the Council of Nice in 325 and
zealously opposed Arianism.
Friend of Saint Athanasius whom
he defended in the Council of Tyre in 335.
When the Arian Gregory
grabbed power in Egypt in 341,
he had Potamon beaten with clubs and left for dead; Potamon received medical
help, survived his inujuries for a while, but eventually died from
the damage. Martyr.
Athanasius wrote about
his life and referred to Potamon as a “double martyr”
because of the abuse he suffered in two separate persecutions.
in 341 in Alexandria, Egypt from
injuries sustained from a beating with clubs
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Potamon of
Heraclea“. CatholicSaints.Info. 30 January 2022. Web. 18 March 2023.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-potamon-of-heraclea/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-potamon-of-heraclea/
Potamon of Heraclea BM (RM)
Died c. 340. Potamon, bishop of Heraclea, Upper Egypt, was a double martyr
under the pagans and under the Arians according to Saint Athanasius. A
contemporary letter and Saint Paphnutius record that, in 310, he was sentenced
to the mines in 310, lamed in one leg, and deprived of one eye during the
persecution of Maximinus Daia. Released after Constantine's decree of
toleration, he was present at the Council of Nicaea in 325. Potamon zealously
supported his metropolitan, Saint Athanasius against the Arian heresy. He
accompanied and defended Athanasius at the Council of Tyre in 335 (related in
the Athanasius's vita). As a result, Potamon was fiercely beaten with clubs and
ultimately killed by the Arians (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0518.shtml
May 18
St. Potamon, Bishop and
Martyr
HE was bishop of Heraclea
in Egypt. St. Athanasius says he was doubly a martyr, under the heathens and
under the Arians. When Maximinus Daia, or Daza, persecuted the Christians in
310, he gloriously confessed the faith, for which one of his eyes was bored out,
and probably the sinews of one ham were cut, as in the case of St. Paphnutius
and others. The marks of his sufferings rendered him conspicuous in the council
of Nice in 325, in which he exerted his zeal against the Arians. He accompanied
and defended St. Athanasius in the council of Tyre in 335, as was related in
the life of that saint on the 2nd of May. When the tyrant Gregory had usurped
the patriarchal chair of St. Athanasius, he, with Philagrius, prefect of Egypt,
an apostate to Arianism under Constantius, travelled over all Egypt, tormenting
and banishing the Catholics; and St. Potamon, for his distinguished zeal, was
by their order beaten on his back with clubs so long as to be left for dead.
However, by the help of medicines, he came to himself, but died shortly after a
martyr for the divinity of the Son of God in 341, as St. Athanasius relates.
See St. Athanasius, Ep. ad Solit. et Apolog. Rufin. l. 2. c. 4. St. Epiph. Hær.
68.
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume V: May. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/5/184.html
Article
(Saint) Bishop, Martyr (May 18) (4th
century) An Egyptian Bishop who
suffered imprisonment as
a Christian under
the Emperor Galerius, and who, after the Peace of the Church, assisted at the
Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325).
True to the Catholic
Faith, he shared with Saint Athanasius
his exile. And it is Saint Athanasius
who relates how the Arians compassed the death of the holy Martyr,
about A.D. 340.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Potamion”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
9 December 2016. Web. 18 March 2023. <https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-potamion/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-potamion/
San Potamone Vescovo
di Eracleopoli
† 341 o 345
Martirologio
Romano: Ad Alessandria sempre in Egitto, santi Potamone, Ortasio,
Serapione, sacerdoti e i loro compagni, martiri.
Vescovo di Eracleopoli Maggiore nella provincia d'Arcadia, in Egitto, soffrì per la fede sotto l'imperatore Massimino Daia (311), il quale, dopo avergli fatto cavare un occhio e storpiare un piede, lo condannò alle miniere.
Dopo la liberazione partecipò al concilio di Nicea. Fu un amico fedele di sant'Atanasio, che difese coraggiosamente al concilio di Tiro (335), firmando anche la lettera dei suoi colleghi al delegato imperiale, Flavio Dionigi, in favore del loro patriarca. incorse naturalmente nell'odio degli Ariani che lo fecero espellere dalla sua sede sotto Costanzo per sostituirlo con uno di loro. Subì vessazioni tali da morirne nel 341 o 345.
Potamone non figura nei sinassari greci; lo si trova in date diverse nei calendari egiziani. C. Baronio l'ha iscritto al 18 maggio nel Martirologio Romano perché l'ha confuso con un omonimo martire alessandrino, semplice prete, iscritto alla stessa data nel Geronimiano con trentasei compagni del quale esiste una passio latina.
Autore: Raymond Janin
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/53770
Voir aussi : https://catholicreadings.org/saint-potamon-of-heraclea/
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2018/05/holy-hieromartyr-potamon-bishop-of.html
