Gaianus

Holy Martyr Gaianus suffered with the kinsmen and companions who were with him, about the year 300. He is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 23 June (new style), among the martyrs gathered around Saint Agrippina, under the name Gaianus, also called Gaius.

The synaxarion speaks of the priest Eustochius, at first a priest of idols, who, seeing the firmness of the Christians under torture, went to Eudoxius, bishop of Antioch, was baptized and ordained priest. At Lystra in Lycaonia he found his relatives, Gaius and his three children, Lollia, Probe and Urbanus, and baptized them. Seized by the pagans, they confessed Christ before the ruler. Eustochius was hung on a wooden frame and his flesh torn; then, with Gaius and the children, he was taken to Ancyra, to the governor Agrippinus, where all were terribly tortured and beheaded.