Euphrasia of Amisus

Holy Martyr Euphrasia of Amisus was one of the seven virgins of Amisus, on the Black Sea coast, who suffered in the time of the persecution of the Emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311), around the year 310. The others were Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia and Theodosia.

Seized for the Christian faith, they confessed it at the trial and for this were tortured without mercy: stripped, beaten with rods, then hung up and scraped on the body with sharp hooks, and at last the holy virgins were burned alive in a blazing furnace.

The Synaxarion commemorates them on 2 April (new style).