Antiochos and Kyriakos the Executioner

Holy Martyrs Antiochos the Physician of Sebaste and Kyriakos, the executioner who believed.

St. Antiochos was a physician of Sebaste in Cappadocia, brother of the Martyr Platon, who traveled healing the sick and preaching Christ. Arrested, he endured tortures unharmed, and when he was beheaded, tradition relates that milk flowed instead of blood.

Seeing this, the executioner Kyriakos confessed Christ and was himself beheaded.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Antiochos and Kyriakos the Executioner is commemorated on July 16. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on July 29 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on July 16

• 

  Athenogenes

  Hierarch, Αθηνογένης

  Holy Hieromartyr Athenogenes.

  Name days: Athenogenes

• Faustus the Martyr

  Martyr, Φαύστος

  Holy Martyr Faustus, crucified for Christ.

• Fifteen Thousand Martyrs of Pisidia

  Martyr, Μάρτυρες οι εν Πισιδία

  The Holy Fifteen Thousand Martyrs who suffered in Pisidia.

• Anastasios and Euxitheos of Thessaloniki

  Hierarch, Αναστάσιος και Ευξίθεος

  Sts. Anastasios and Euxitheos, Bishops of Thessaloniki.