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Saint Pothinus (Photinus) (c. 87-177 AD) was a martyr
Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
 and bishop of Lyon. He was martyred along with Alexander, Attalus, Espagathus, Maturus, and Sanctius during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
.

A letter attributed to Irenaeus
Irenaeus

Saint Irenaeus , was a Catholic Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology....
 records their martyrdom; it was sent from the Christian communities of Lyon and Vienne
Vienne

Vienne is a d?partement of France, named after the Vienne River....
 to the Roman province of Asia. This letter states that Pothinus was the ninety-year old bishop of Lyon who was seized by a mob along with several companions.

Brought before the magistrate, the old bishop died from abuse in prison, while the others were killed by wild beasts in the local amphitheater.






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Saint Pothinus (Photinus) (c. 87-177 AD) was a martyr
Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
 and bishop of Lyon. He was martyred along with Alexander, Attalus, Espagathus, Maturus, and Sanctius during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
.

A letter attributed to Irenaeus
Irenaeus

Saint Irenaeus , was a Catholic Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology....
 records their martyrdom; it was sent from the Christian communities of Lyon and Vienne
Vienne

Vienne is a d?partement of France, named after the Vienne River....
 to the Roman province of Asia. This letter states that Pothinus was the ninety-year old bishop of Lyon who was seized by a mob along with several companions.

Brought before the magistrate, the old bishop died from abuse in prison, while the others were killed by wild beasts in the local amphitheater. A martyr killed around this time was the slave-girl Blandina
Blandina

Saint Blandina was a virgin and martyr....
. A fifteen-year-old boy named Ponticus was also killed around this time and is also honored as a martyr.

See also

  • Persecution in Lyon
  • Saint Foutin
    Saint Foutin

    Saint Foutin was a syncretism amalgam of the first bishop of Lyon, France and pre-Christian Gauls phallic worship.Foutin was the first Christian bishop of Lyon, and after his death, so intimately was priapic worship intermingled with the religion or theology of the Gauls, that somehow the memory of St....


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