Dec 14

Saint Ares

December 14th IV century

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Name
Ares (Masculino)
Dead
in Ascalón, Palestina, in current Israel
Celebration
December 14th
In Ashkelon, in Palestine, Saints Ares, Promo and Elias, martyrs, who, wanting to leave Egypt to Cilicia to visit and help the confessors of Christ in the persecution unleashed by the Emperor Maximinian, were imprisoned in Caesarea, got destroyed the eyes and feet, and they were taken to Ashkelon by order of the prefect Firmilian, where Ares was burned alive and the others beheaded thus causing martyrdom. Roman martyrology