Agapius of Cappadocia

Saint Agapius of Cappadocia died in the year 304. He was a native of Cappadocia and was beheaded. He is sometimes commemorated together with the martyr Agapion and the hieromartyr Sisinnius. In the printed Greek Menaion of today a verse synaxarion, in iambic lines, dedicated to this martyr is kept after the sixth ode of the canon of Matins. He is commemorated on 5 December. His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.