Heraclas, Saint (ERACLA, SANTO) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 300

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ERACLA, saint. — Born about 180, he studied philosophy together with Origene, by whom he was converted to Christianity and subsequently associated with him as an assistant in catechetical teaching at the Didascalium of Alexandria. When Origene was obliged to abandon his teaching office in 230, E. became his successor. He was ordained priest by Bishop Demetrio, whom he succeeded in the Alexandrian see. Despite the old friendship that bound him to Origene, as bishop he maintained the measures already taken against him by his predecessor, not permitting his return to Ales-

Article illustration — (from J. Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España romana y Visigoda, Barcellona 1941, no. 36) ERA — Mention of the Spanish era DXLVIII (A.D. 510) in a funerary inscription from Mértola (Pacente).

sandria. E. died in 247, after 16 years of episcopate.
Feast on 14 July.

BRUL.: Eusebio, Hist. eccl., VI, 3, 13, 19, 26, 35; VII, 7;
PO 1, 174-77; Acta SS. Iulii, III, Partiti 1868, p. 617 sq.;
Martyr, Romanum, p. 287. Agostina Amore