Aedesius, the father of Margaret "the Virgin," disowned her after embracing Christianity, while her mother died after childbirth.
Aedesius (Greek: , died 355 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family. Saint Aedesius of Alexandria (also Edese or Edesius) (died 306) was an early Christian martyred under Galerius Maximianus. The historian Eusebius of Caesarea elaborates Aedesius' story: like his brother, he was a philosopher that converted to Christianity. 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. 
