Callistus

Saint Callistus, martyr, is one of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium, who suffered at the hands of the Saracens. He died in the year 845. He is commemorated on 6 March by the old calendar.

All of them were noble citizens of the city of Amorium. The city had fallen into the hands of the Saracens in the time of the emperor Theophilus, and the Saracens led them into captivity, tortured them to force them to accept Islam, and in the end cut off their heads at Zimara, on the Euphrates.