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Saint Agapius was a Christian martyr killed at Caesarea in AD 306. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. His martyrdom is recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea in his work The Martyrs of Palestine. Agapius was arrested in AD 304. He remained in prison for two years and was tortured on multiple occasions. He was brought out to the arena many times and presented to the judges. There he was threatened and reserved for later matches. The judges, Eusebius notes, must have been motivated either out of compassion or the hope that he might change his mind and renounce Christianity. Finally he was brought to the arena and presented to the emperor Maximinus. He was offered a pardon on the condition that he disavow his faith. According to Eusebius, he not only refused the offer, but he is said to have cheerfully rushed headlong into the bear. The animal inflicted severe injuries, but Agapius survived. Stones were affixed to his feet and he was drowned in the Mediterranean on the following day.
His feast days are observed on November 20 and August 19.
Agapius ( Gr. ) was an ancient physician of Alexandria, who taught and practiced medicine at Byzantium with great success and reputation, and acquired immense riches. Of his date it can only be determined, that he must have lived before the end of the fifth century, as Damascius (from whom Photius, Biblioth. cod. 242, and the Suda have taken their account of him) lived about that time.
Agapius may refer to:
- Saint Agapius of Spain (d. 259), Christian martyr, died at Citra.
- Saint Agapius of Palestine (d. 303/304) Christian martyr, beheaded along with many others under Great Persecution of Diocletian
- Agapius of Edessa (d. 304) Christian martyr and one of three sons of St. Bassa.
- Saint Agapius of Caesarea (d. 306), Christian martyr, drowned in Caesarea.
- Agapius of Caesarea (d. c 312), bishop of Caesarea, predecessor to Eusebius
- Agapius (soldier), (d. 315), Christian martyr and soldier, burned with Carterius and others in Armenia.
- Agapius of Novara, (d. 447) Bishop of Novara, Piedmont, Italy for over 30 years.
- Agapius (Manichaean), (4th or 5th century) Manichaean philosopher and possible disciple of Mani
- Agapius (physician), (5th century) ancient physician from Alexandria.
- Agapius (philosopher), (5th-6th century) Neoplatonist philosopher
- Agapius the historian, (10th century) Arabic Christian bishop of Manbij (Hierapolis), near Aleppo.
- Agapius was also the name of a companion of Saint Aphrodisius.
- Saint Martyr Agapius from Galatista (Macedonia) (1710–1752).
Agapius (; 5th-6th century) was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in Athens. He was a notable philosopher in the Neoplatonist school in Athens when Marinus of Neapolis was scholarch after the death of Proclus (c. 485). He was admired for his love of learning and for putting forward difficult problems.
He may be the Agapius under whom John Lydus heard some lectures on Platonist philosophy, while he was studying Aristotelian doctrines in Constantinople in 511, and of whom the poet Christodorus in his work On the Disciples of the Great Proclus stated that "Agapius is assuredly the last but the first of all."
Agapius (or Agapios) was a Christian philosopher associated with Manichaeism. He is supposed to have lived in the fourth or fifth century.