DOMITIUS, Saint, Martyr. - At the beginning of the 6th century a martyr D. is mentioned in a homily of Bishop Severus of Antioch, but without further particulars, while at the end of the same century John Malalas speaks of a D. who was an anchorite and martyr, put to death by Julian the Apostate and venerated in the vicinity of Cyrrhus in Syria. His Passio, highly legendary, was evidently composed along the lines of the life of another D., a Persian physician, venerated at Quros in Armenia, with whom our D. has also been confused. According to the testimonies of Malalas and of the Passio, D. would have died on 6 March 363 and been transferred to Cyrrhus on 5 July 365; but neither date is found in the Eastern martyrologies. Feast on 5 July.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Iulii, II, Paris 1867, p. 225 ff.; J. Van den Gheyn, Acta Graeca S. Dometii martyris, in Anal. Boll., 19 (1900), pp. 285-320; P. Peeters, St Dométius le martyr et st Dométius le médecin, ibid., 57 (1939) pp. 72-104; Martyr. Romanum, pp. 271, 328.

Agostino Amore

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