Heracleides

Saint Heracleidios, hieromartyr, was bishop of Tamassos, in Cyprus, martyred together with Saint Myron. He is commemorated in the Orthodox synaxaria together with Saint Myron on 17 September.

He was born in Cyprus, in the village of Lampadou (or Lampadistos), the son of Hierocles, who was a pagan priest. Although at first a pagan, after he had received into his house the Apostle Paul, Mark and Barnabas when they passed through his region, he believed and, together with Myron, spread Christianity in Cyprus. His zeal and work were so great that the Apostle Paul appointed him bishop of Tamassos in Cyprus. At the same time, however, they aroused the enmity of unbelievers, who, after seizing them, put them to death by throwing them into the fire. A part of his holy relics is at the monastery of Saint Heracleidios at Politiko near Nicosia. His commemoration is shared with Saint Myron on 17 September.

The Serbian source calls Heracleidios and Myron bishops of the city of Tamassos in Cyprus, both martyred for the faith in Jesus Christ.