Agathoclia

Holy Martyr Agathoclia is commemorated on 1 September in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with the martyr Aethalas. The page on saint.gr places her in the same group as the siblings Euodus, Callista and Hermogenes, of whom it says the following.

The three siblings longed greatly to find the truth. God had mercy on them and made them worthy to hear the preaching of the apostles, by which they were drawn to the light and life of Christ. From then on their life was an example of faith and good works: they gave generous help to widows and orphans and held a holy rivalry over which of them could bring more souls into the saving harbour of the Church. When they were arrested they confessed that they belonged to the Christian Church and that this was their greater boast than any crown on the head. Promises of gifts and threats were made in vain. The siblings encouraged one another, and in the end the heads of all three were cut off with the sword. Brothers and sister by the flesh, they were brothers and sister also by spiritual rebirth, both in the death of martyrdom and in the inheritance of eternal goods. The synaxarion does not say clearly whether Agathoclia belonged to this group.