Dacian (prefect)


Dacian was a prefect of Gaul under Diocletian and Maximian, and evidently acted in Hispania Tarraconensis or Hispania Carthaginensis at about the same time. He caused the martyrdom of, amongst others, Saint Faith, Caprasius of Agen and Vincent of Saragossa.
In The Golden Legend, by 13th-century Archbishop of Genoa, Jacobus de Voragine, the death of Saint George is at the hands of Dacian or Dacianus, and about the year 287.