Eutychius

Holy Martyr Eutychius was a subdeacon of the Church of Alexandria and died for the faith in the year 356. We know of his martyrdom from Saint Athanasius the Great, who tells it in his Apology for His Flight and in his History of the Arians.

In the weeks after Pascha of 356, in the time of the emperor Constantius II, the throne of Alexandria was held by force by the Arian Gregory, who began a harsh persecution of the Christians loyal to Athanasius. The Arians seized Eutychius and scourged him almost to death. Condemned then to forced labour, he died on the road to the mines of Phoeno.

Cardinal Caesar Baronius introduced his commemoration into the Roman Martyrology on 26 March (new style). He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church; the sources at hand show no Orthodox synodal canonization.