June 5th

Saint Dorotheus, Bishop and Martyr

Saint · Common of Martyrs · Tyre, Lebanon · d. c. 362

At Tyre in Phoenicia, Saint Dorotheus, bishop, who, while still a priest, suffered much under the emperor Diocletian; surviving until the days of Julian, he is said, under that emperor and at the age of one hundred and seven, to have crowned his venerable old age with martyrdom in Thrace.

Latin Original

— Tyri in Phoenicia, sancti Dorothéi, epíscopi, qui, cum adhuc présbyter esset, sub Diocletiáno imperatóre multa passus est et, usque ad Iuliáni témpora supérstes, sub eo, annum agens séptimum supra centésimum, venerándam senectütem in Thrácia martyrio honestavísse fertur.