Demius

Holy Martyr Demius is commemorated on 30 October (new style, the Greek calendar). The word demios means executioner, and the synaxarion says that the martyr's real name is not known. Before he believed he had been an executioner; he came to know Christ, confessed His name and was perfected in martyrdom, shut in dark and foul isolation, where he probably died of suffocation.

A verse says that the one condemned in the dark prison knew Christ, who brings light out of darkness. His commemoration is repeated on 25 March. Place and time are not preserved.