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Martyr

Euethius

One of twenty-⁠three saints commemorated together on the feast of Saints Adrian and Natalia.

Feast
August 26old style September 8
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Euethius is one of the twenty-⁠three martyrs commemorated on 26 August (new style) who died by the sword at Nicomedia in the fourth century, together with Saint Adrian. Their names are: Anatolius, Anthimus, Antiochus, Gentilius, Eleutherius, Hermogenes, Euethius, Euretus, Eutychius, Theagones, Theodore, Thyrsus, John, Carterius, Claudius, Cyriacus, Marinus, Mardonius, Menodius, Plato, Synetus, Troadius and Pharetrius.

The synaxarion relates that Adrian, of Nicomedia, a young man of twenty-⁠eight, married to Natalia, saw these Christians ready to die for the faith, was seized by what he heard, and declared to the pagans that he too was a Christian. He was imprisoned, Natalia came to strengthen him, and he died after torments. About Euethius no particulars of his own are preserved in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day August 26