Eugraphos

Saint Eugraphos, martyr, was one of the martyrs of the first Christian centuries, honoured by the Orthodox and the Catholic Church. He was a companion of Saint Menas and suffered with him and with Saint Hermogenes at Alexandria. He is commemorated on 10 December.

According to tradition, Eugraphos accompanied the emperor Maximian as a secretary. Seeing the martyrdom of Saints Menas and Hermogenes, he decided to become a Christian himself and received death for Christ. The year of his death is given differently in the sources: 305, in the persecution of Diocletian, or 312.

From the time of the emperor Arcadius (395-408) the veneration of the three saints spread in Egypt. It was then that a monastic complex in their honour began to be built near Alexandria, known today as Abu Mena.