Capito

Holy Martyr Capito is known only by a name. The time and place of his death are unknown. The Greek verse synaxaria say that he was put to the sword. According to Cardinal Caesar Baronius, compiler of the Roman Martyrology, and H. Delehaye, Capito suffered together with the martyr Hymenaeus, whose commemoration is kept on the same day. However, in the verse synaxaria each of these saints has a separate couplet. In the Martyrology of Blessed Jerome, on 23 July, the name Capito appears among the martyrs of Nicomedia.

The commemoration of Capito entered the Old Russian prose Prologue and the Great Menaion Reader of Makarii. He is commemorated on 6 August, according to the Greek calendar. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.