Saint Anastasius monk and martyr

January 22nd VII century

Sergiopolis, city of Persia (now Iran), passion of saint Anastasius, monk and martyr, who, after many torments he suffered in the city of Caesarea, Palestine, was strangled and beheaded near a river by order of the King of the Persians, Khosrau, after witnessing the death of seventy companions. Roman martyrology