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==Dating==
The date of St. Anthimus' martyrdom is uncertain. Traditionally, it is placed under Diocletion, in 303 (following [[Eusebius of Caesarea]]), when "rivers of blood" flowed.
A fragmentary letter preserved in the Chronicon Paschale, written in prison by the [[Priest]] Lucian of Antioch, who was awaiting death, mentions Anthimus, bishop of Nicomedia, as having just suffered martyrdom. Schaff and Wace note that Lucian was imprisoned and put to death during the persecution of emperor Maximinus Daia, in 311 or 312, and therefore conclude that, if the fragment is genuine, Anthimus suffered martyrdom not under Diocletian but under Maximinus.
