Casinia of Ancyra

Holy Martyr Casinia of Ancyra suffered in the year 363, in the time of Julian the Apostate, at Ancyra in Phrygia, together with her husband Melasippus and their son Antoninus. The Church commemorates them on 20 November (new style).

The holy martyrs Melasippus and Casinia, torn with iron hooks and maimed, died in the tortures. Their son, the boy Antoninus, whom the persecutor forced to watch the torments of his parents, spat in the face of the God-⁠renouncing emperor. For this he was subjected to the harshest tortures, in which he remained unharmed, then was beheaded. Forty youths, seeing that the Lord protected His confessor Antoninus and that the torments did him no harm, believed in Christ, openly confessed their faith and received a martyr's death.