Andronicus of Anazarbus

Holy Martyr Andronicus of Anazarbus is commemorated together with the martyrs Probus and Tarachus, who suffered for Christ in the year 304, in the city of Tarsus in Cilicia. They are commemorated on 25 October.

The pagans demanded that they sacrifice to the idols, and Saint Tarachus, an old soldier, answered that he offered sacrifice to the One true God, with a pure heart. Seeing the saints' steadfastness in confessing the true faith, the proconsul gave them to torture. "When my body suffers," Saint Probus said to the idolaters, "then my soul is healed and revived." The tormenters devised the heaviest torments their malice could imagine, then hacked the saints' bodies into pieces. Christians secretly took the remains of the martyrs and buried them.