Eugenios

Saint Eugenios, martyr, was one of the Five Holy Martyrs who suffered in Cappadocia in the year 296. The Orthodox Church commemorates them on 13 December, together with Eustratius, Auxentius, Mardarius and Orestes.

He was an army officer, and in the persecution of Diocletian he refused to become an idol worshipper. Imprisonment and torments followed. Eugenios was put to death after his tongue and hands were cut off and his legs were broken. With him there also suffered Saints Eustratius, Auxentius, Mardarius and Orestes.

The relics of the saints were at Simandra in Cappadocia. With the exchange of populations they were carried by the refugees from Asia Minor to Polystylo near Kavala, where they settled and built a church in their honour.