Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Gordius | |
Death Place: | Caesarea in Cappadocia (modern-day Kayseri, Turkey) |
Canonized Date: | Pre-congregation |
Feast Day: | 3 January |
Saint Gordius (or Gordinus; died) was a Christian soldier in Cappadocia who was dismissed from the army, lived as a hermit for a while, then returned and made an open declaration of his faith, for which he was martyred. His feast day is 3 January.
The Roman Martyrology as of 1916 for the Third Day of January says,
The Monks of Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under January 3,