Achaemenides

Saint Achaemenides was a confessor of Persia, commemorated on 3 November. He lived in the time of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II and the Persian king Yazdegerd.

He came from a noble and rich Persian family. A time came when he came to know the faith of Christ, left the faith of his ancestors and renounced their riches. The king learned of it and did all he could to persuade him to receive again the original faith.

When the king saw that he could not tempt the saint, he ordered him to be subjected to torments and to all kinds of humiliations from society. When he saw that after all the sufferings the saint had not renounced Christianity, he ordered that he be left in peace, on condition that he leave Persia. Saint Achaemenides departed in peace to the Lord.