Chronion

Holy Martyr Chronion, also called Eunus, was a Christian of Alexandria who confessed the faith in the persecution of Decius, around the year 250.

According to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, whose letter is preserved by the historian Eusebius, Chronion was the servant (in Orthodox calendars, the disciple) of Julian, an aged Christian crippled by gout who could neither walk nor stand. Both were brought before the judges, Julian carried by his attendants. One of the bearers denied the faith at once, but Chronion confessed the Lord together with Julian. Both were carried on camels through the whole city, scourged, and burned alive in a great fire before the crowd. A soldier named Besas, who defended the saints against the mockery of the mob, was beheaded.

The Church commemorates Julian and Chronion on 27 February, and the Greek synaxarion also includes them among the Alexandrian martyrs of 30 October. The date of 27 February is that of the Menaion; in the Churches that keep the Julian calendar it is to be read in the old style.