Alexander(3)
Alexander (d. c.250), martyr of Alexandria. With his companion Epimachus, he is described by Denys of Alexandria as having endured ‘numerous agonies from scrapers and whips…their bodies were destroyed by quicklime’. Feast: 22 August.
Bibliography
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- Eusebius, H.E., vi. 41; Propylaeum, s.d. 22 August





