Asterius, Claudius and Neon were a group of brothers, who suffered

martyrdom A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external ...

. 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 Theonilla a

widow A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died. Terminology The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed ''widowhood''. An archaic term for a widow is "relict," literally "someone left over". This word can s ...

.St. Asterius and Companions
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Butler's account

The hagiographer

Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Biography Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died whe ...

(1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under August 23,

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* 303 deaths Saints from Roman Anatolia 4th-century Christian martyrs 4th-century Romans Year of birth unknown Groups of Christian martyrs of the Roman era {{Turkey-bio-stub