Andrew

Holy Martyr Andrew is commemorated on 31 August (new style) with the martyrs Heraclius, Faustus and Menas. The Greek synaxarion says that nothing biographical is known about them, only that they suffered for Christ.

The verses that honour them picture the four Martyrs as a four-⁠horse chariot that rushed to heaven through their shed blood. According to the same source their memory is repeated on 12 July. Through them the Church keeps the memory of a group of four confessors of the early centuries, without other details of place and time.