death_date death_place attributes feast_day venerated_in birth_date titles article_title name
8 april 306 alexandria , egypt shipwrecked with his brother aphian 8 april -lrb- western calendar -rrb- roman catholic church unknown martyr aedesius of alexandria
 saint aedesius of alexandria
aedesius of alexandria

saint aedesius of alexandria -lrb- also edese or edesius -rrb- -lrb- died 306 -rrb- was an early christian martyred under galerius maximianus .
he was the brother of saint aphian -lrb- or amphianus -rrb- .
according to the martyrology , he publicly rebuked a judge who had been forcing christian virgins to work in brothels in order to break them of their faith , so he was tortured and drowned .
