Caluf of Egypt

Holy Martyr Caluf of Egypt suffered in the year 303, in the persecution of Maximian Herculius, co-⁠ruler of Diocletian. The Church commemorates him on 1 June (new style).

He was a native of Egyptian Thebes, today Luxor. For confessing faith in Christ he was seized and brought before the governor of the city. By his order the saint was hung head downward, with a heavy stone tied to his neck, and cruelly beaten. The sufferer repeated unceasingly: "I bear all for the hope of blessedness in the life to come." Then they untied him and wished to force him to sacrifice to idols, but the saint would not. At last he was thrown into the fire, where he gave his soul as a martyr.