Abias is a

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of the

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. He is included in the ''

Heiligen-Lexicon ''Heiligen-Lexicon, oder Lebensgeschichten aller Heiligen'' by Johann Evangelist Stadler is a book of hagiography published in Augsburg Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavari ...

'' by J. E. Stadler. A church in

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is dedicated in his name. It is unknown what his

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was if he ever had one.

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Sources

*Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Christian saints in unknown century Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Coptic Orthodox saints {{saint-stub