Antoninus

Antoninus was a public executioner in Rome. According to tradition, during the trial of Saint Eusebius he had a vision and came to believe in Christ; he confessed his faith and was beheaded in the year 186. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 22 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 4 September of the civil calendar.