37 Venerable Martyrs of Bizye

The 37 Venerable Martyrs of Bizye in Thrace are remembered on 20 August. Some were from Byzantium, others from Philippopolis. They were arrested at Bizye by the prefect Apellianus and, because they boldly confessed their faith in Christ, first had their hands and feet cut off and were then burned alive in a lit furnace.

Parisian Codex 1587 gives a list of names, among them Severus, Orion, Antilinus, Eudaemon, Silvanus, Sabinus, Eustathius, Straton and Vosvas from Byzantium, and Timothy, Palmatus, Mestus, Nicon, Diphilus, Domitian, Maximus, Neophytus, Victor and many others from Philippopolis. Patmos Codex 266 remembers them on 24 August, as 33 in number and with some differences in the names. The calendar of the Church of Greece (new style) remembers them on 20 August, among them Severus and Memnon, Lucius the senator, Heliodorus and Dosas, Photine, Eudaemon, Reginus, Orestes and the priest Philonides.