Agathodorus

Saint Agathodorus, Martyr, was a servant of Carpus, Papylus and Agathonice, martyrs at Pergamum in Asia Minor. He was killed by the Romans to encourage his Christian masters to renounce the faith, but they refused and were martyred. The martyrdom probably took place in the persecution of Decius, but some sources place it a hundred years earlier, under Marcus Aurelius. Alban Butler says that he was scourged with bull's sinews until he died, in the presence of his masters, at the third examination. He is commemorated on 13 April. His masters are commemorated on the same day in the Western calendar.