DASIUS, Saint, Martyr. - He is commemorated in the Martirologio geronimiano on 5 Aug. and 4 Oct. as a martyr of Axiopolis, while the Passio says he died at Durostorum in Moesia on 20 Nov. 303. D. was a soldier; elected, according to custom, king of the festival of the Saturnalia, he was to have been sacrificed at its end to Cronus. Seeing that he was certainly going to die, he preferred to die as a Christian by confessing his faith. Imprisoned and brought before the tribunal of the legate Bassus, since he refused to sacrifice to idols, he was beheaded. In the second half of the 6th century, when Durostorum was invaded by the Avars, his body was transferred to Ancona (v.).

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BIBL.: F. Cumont, Les actes de s. Dasius, in Anal. Boll., 16 (1897) pp. 5-16; id., Le tombeau de s. Dasius de Durostorum in Anal. Boll., 27 (1908), pp. 369-72; H. Delchaye, Les passions des martyrs et les genres littéraires, Bruxelles 1921, pp. 321-28; id., Les origines du culte des martyrs, ivi 1933, p. 248; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 609 sq.;

Agostino Amore

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