TRASEA, saint, martyr. – Bishop of Eumenia
in Phrygia, who lived in the second half of the 2nd century.
The Syriac Breviary and the Hieronymian Martyrology
commemorate him on 27 October together with Polycarp and Gaius; the
Roman Martyrology, however, which derived its information
from that of Adonis, commemorates him alone on 5 October. His
tomb was located at Smyrna, where he perhaps suffered martyrdom in
the time of Marcus Aurelius or Commodus. The writer Apollonius,
in a work against the Montanists, stated that he had
died in his own time, and the bishop Polycrates of Ephesus, in the
letter sent by Pope Victor concerning the paschal controversy,
asserted that T. had followed the Quartodeciman practice.
BIBL.: Eusebio, Hist. eccl., V, 18, 23; Tillemont, II, p. 440
and following; Acta SS. Octobris, III, Paris 1868, pp. 7-12; Martyr.
Hieronymianum, p. 573 and following; H. Delchaye, Les origines du culte
des martyrs, Brussels 1933, p. 158; Martyr. Romanum, p. 435.