Biography
Astius

About Astius
The passion says that a foreboding dream preceded Astius’s arrest. It recounts that he endured torture without renouncing Christ and was crucified; Christians then buried his body.Modern scholarship emphasizes that Astius’s identity and story are known through hagiographic, archaeological, and liturgical reception; the narrative is not contemporary documentation.
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