Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia

Holy Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia suffered in the time of the Emperor Hadrian (117 to 138). In one synaxarion he is called the son of the senator Dionysius.

In the persecution of Christians he was seized and tortured, then thrown into prison, where an angel healed him of his wounds. When he was freed he gave all his property to the poor, giving even some of it to his enemies, who denounced him and handed him over to torture. Under a new governor he was seized again, hung up and scraped with iron, then beheaded with the sword. From the wound, the account says, milk and blood flowed.

He is commemorated on 20 September (new style). The story of his martyrdom is also found in the Lives of the Saints by Saint Demetrius of Rostov.