04 Works, Today, March 3rd, is Holy Martyr Euthalia’s Day, With Footnotes – #61

The Holy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus, and Basiliscus, who were from Amasia, were fellow soldiers and kinsmen of Saint Theodore the Tyro.

They were betrayed to the Governor Asclepiodotus as Christians, during the reign of Diocletian (284-305). , they were imprisoned, and were not condemned for a long time because of the courage of the imperial governor of the town of Amasea. When a new governor arrived, more inhuman than his predecessor, he ordered these three to be brought before him. All three were young men; Eutropius and Cleonicus were brothers and Basiliscus a kinsman of Theodore’s…

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