Dioscorus

Saint Dioscorus was a martyr in the time of the emperor Diocletian, in the year 288 after Christ. The Church commemorates him on 13 October (new style, the Greek calendar).

According to the synaxarion he came from the people called Skenopolitai and held the rank of senator. He cast away every office and worldly honour and appeared before the governor Lucian, sharply rebuking him for the persecutions against Christians. Astonished at his boldness, the governor tried to turn him from his purpose with flattery and threats, and when that failed he tortured him cruelly and finally beheaded him. A verse of the synaxarion says that Dioscorus, put to the sword, shames Zeus.