Asterius may refer to:
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Asterion or Asterius, multiple figures in Greek mythology
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Asterius of Ostia
Saint Asterius of Ostia (d. 3rd century AD) was a martyred priest. Information on this saint is based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Saint Callixtus''.Sabine Baring-Gould, ''The Lives of the Saints''. Vol. 2. (J. Hodges, 1877). Digitized June 6, ...
(died 223), Christian martyr and saint
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Asterius of Caesarea
Asterius of Caesarea was a Roman senator, who became a Christian martyr. After Asterius gave a Christian burial to a Roman soldier Marinus of Caesarea, who suffered martyrdom, he too was condemned to martyrdom, and was beheaded.
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(died 262), Christian martyr and saint
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Asterius, Claudius and Neon
Asterius, Claudius and Neon were a group of brothers, who suffered martyrdom. During the persecutions of Diocletian, the three brothers were handed over to the proconsul of Cilicia, Lysias. Martyred along with them were two women, Domnina and Theon ...
(died 303), Christian martyr and saint
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Asterius of Petra
Asterius of Petra was a Conversion to Christianity, convert from Arianism, and later the Bishop of Petra.
At the Council of Sardica, in 343, Asterius denounced Arianism, as a heresy. This led to his exile in Libya, at the command of Constantius ...
(died 365), Bishop of Petra and saint
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Asterius of Amasea Saint Asterius of Amasea (Greek: Άστέριος Αμασείας, c. 350c. 410 AD) was made Bishop of Amasea between 380 and 390 AD, after having been a lawyer.
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, bishop of Amasea, later in the 4th century
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Asterius (comes Hispaniarum)
Asterius ( 419–422) was a Roman general who obtained the title of ''comes Hispaniarum'' in which capacity he participated in an important military expedition against the Vandals who had established themselves in the north of Gallaecia. He was ...
, Roman general who defeated the Vandals in Hispania in various battles.
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Asterius of Cappadocia
Asterius of Cappadocia (Ἀστέριος; died c. 341) was an Arianism, Arian Christian theologian from Cappadocia. Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety; the latest edition is by Markus Vinzent). He is said to have been a pu ...
(died c.341), philosopher
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Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, Roman consul for 494
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Asterius Chapel
The Asterius chapel (French language, French: Chapelle d'Astérius) is a small underground Christianity, Christian building dating from the 5th-7th centuries, now located within the archaeological park of the Baths of Antoninus in the archaeologi ...
, underground Christian building
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