Christian

Holy Martyr Christian was one of the two infants, Cyriacus and Christian, commemorated on 24 May (new style) with Saints Marciana, Palladia and Susanna and the martyrs gathered around the holy General Meletius.

Their memory is bound to that of the Great Martyr Meletius the General. According to the synaxarion, in the time of Emperor Elagabalus (218-222), Meletius, a soldier, was condemned together with two companions, Stephen and John: Meletius was hanged and the other two were beheaded. The idolater Serapion and the sorcerer Callinicus came to believe on seeing Meletius's endurance, and were also put to death for Christ. At the sight of these martyrdoms twelve counts and tribunes believed, together with three women (Marciana, Palladia and Susanna), two infants (Cyriacus and Christian) and a multitude that the synaxarion counts as eleven thousand two hundred and eight martyrs.

Of the two infants the synaxarion says that the sword killed them; the verse calls them "Christian servants of the Lord". No further details of Christian survive.