Faustus

Saint Faustus is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 4 September (new style), together with Julian, Petronius, Sarbelus, Charitina and Hermione.

Of those named, the synaxarion says of Hermione, one of the four daughters of the Apostle Philip, that she had the gift of prophecy. She went with her sister Eutychis to Ephesus to meet John the Theologian, learned that he had fallen asleep, found his disciple Petronius and drew on his teaching. When Trajan passed through Ephesus he called her to prophesy for him; she told him that he would defeat the Persians and that the Roman throne would be taken by his son-⁠in-⁠law Hadrian, and so it came to pass. The emperor had her tortured, then handed her to the executioners, but they believed in Christ and let her go free; she died in peace and was buried at Ephesus. Sarbelus (Zarbelus) died by stoning. About Faustus the sources consulted contain no particulars.