Heraclius

Holy Martyr Heraclius is known only by a name. The time and place of his life are unknown. According to the Greek verse synaxaria, he was beaten to death with clubs. The Bollandist scholars report that in an appendix to the printed Greek Menaion, from the collection of the Jesuit P. F. Chifflet, Heraclius is called a bishop. Later his commemoration entered the Slavonic verse Prologues.

The synaxarion scholar H. Delehaye suggested that he is one and the same as the martyr Heraclius who suffered with Andrew, Faustus and Menas, whose commemoration stands in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople (end of the tenth century) at 13 July (26 July, new style).

He is commemorated on 27 July, according to the Greek calendar. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.