Hesychius

Holy Martyr Hesychius is known only by a few lines. The time and place of his death are unknown. His commemoration and a couplet in his honour stand in the Byzantine synaxaria of the M family, in H. Delehaye's classification (for example in a manuscript of 1295), where it is said that he was hanged by pagans. From there the information entered the printed Greek Menaion (Venice, 1592) and the Synaxaristes of Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite.

R. van Doren and R. Aubert thought that Hesychius suffered together with other saints commemorated on that day in the verse synaxaria: Diomedes, pierced with a blade, Julian, whose head was crushed with a club, Philip, beheaded, Eutychian, who died on a heated grill, Leonides, thrown into fire, Eutychia, crucified, Melanippus, burned, Parthagapia and Philadelphus, with a stone tied to his neck, drowned in the sea. In the Roman Martyrology the place of their death is the city of Pamia in Gaul, today Pamiers in France. Yet each of these saints has a separate couplet in the Greek synaxaria, which does not allow them to be counted as one group of martyrs.

He is commemorated on 15 September, according to the Greek calendar. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.