Amandinus of Rome

Holy Martyr Amandinus of Rome is commemorated together with Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, the martyrs Censorinus and Sabinus, the virgin Chrysia and twenty other martyrs who suffered in the third century. They are commemorated on 12 February. His name does not appear in the present Menologion of the Russian Church.

Saint Censorinus was the first official in the time of Emperor Claudius II (268 to 270). Through a denunciation he was seized and imprisoned for faith in Christ. In prison he raised a dead man, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and after that twenty soldiers, the guards of the prison, turned to Christ. With Saint Censorinus they were beheaded. Then the virgin Chrysia was brought to trial, who confessed herself a Christian with courage, was put to torment and, after fierce torture, was drowned in the sea. Saint Sabinus was beaten with a heavy hammer, then hung on a tree and his body burned with fire; in the torments he gave his soul to the Lord.

With Saint Chrysia there suffered Philiclus, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Styracinus, Mina, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore, Tribunus, the priest Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, the port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, learning of the martyrs' sufferings, came to the court, despite his age, and rebuked the tormentor for his inhumanity, calling him bloodthirsty. The enraged judge gave him up to torment; after long torture he was bound hand and foot and thrown into the sea.