Eusebius of Rome

Holy Martyr Eusebius of Rome is commemorated in the company around the Holy Hieromartyr Hippolytus, the Holy Martyrs Censorinus and Sabinus and the Holy Martyr Chrysia the virgin, together with twenty other martyrs, who suffered in the third century. His name does not appear in the present Menologion of the Russian Church.

Censorinus had been the first dignitary under the Emperor Claudius II (268 to 270). Denounced, he was shut in prison for faith in Christ. In prison he raised a dead man in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, after which twenty soldiers, guards of the prison, turned to Christ. With Censorinus they were beheaded. At that time the maiden Chrysia was brought to trial, confessed herself a Christian with courage and was tortured, and then drowned in the sea after savage torments. Sabinus was struck with a heavy hammer, then hung from a tree and burned with fire, and gave his holy soul to the Lord in his sufferings.

With Chrysia suffered Philicles, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Stiracinus, Mina, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprian, Theodore, Tribunus, the presbyter Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, the port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, learning of the martyrs' suffering, came to the court despite his great age and rebuked the judge for his inhumanity, calling him a blood-⁠drinker. The enraged judge handed the bishop over to torture. After long torments he was bound hand and foot and thrown into the sea.

The martyrs are commemorated on 12 February (new style).