Antiochus of Sulcis

Antiochus of sulci († early 2nd century ) was a Christian martyr and saint.

Today's Sant'Antioco island directly off the southwest coast of Sardinia, and the chief town of this island are named after the saint. Originally called this island sulci or Plumbaria by the local lead deposits. According to legend, Antiochus was a doctor who had been converted under the reign of Emperor Hadrian in Cappadocia and Galatia many people to Christianity and had been sentenced to hard labor in the mines of the island sulci. There, however, he had his overseer Cyriacus converted and secretly built an underground chapel, before he had been sentenced to death and executed on the island. Another tradition laid martyrdom but after Elaiussa Sebaste, where he should have been executed together with Cyriacus.

Antiochus is venerated as a saint, his feast day is 13 December.

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