Biography
Aceolus and Acius
About Aceolus and Acius
Aceolus and Acius are remembered as two Christian ministers who suffered martyrdom near Amiens, in present-day France. The received account places their deaths around 303, during the persecution under the emperor Diocletian.
Acius is described as a deacon and Aceolus as a subdeacon. Their martyrdom accounts circulated widely, but the Catholic Church in Norway’s biography judges those accounts unreliable.
Their commemoration is on 1 May. The church of Saint-Acheul outside the walls of Amiens was formerly the diocese’s cathedral.
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