Lollius of Sadon

Holy Martyr Lollius of Sadon suffered for Christ in the persecution of the emperor Maximian (286-310), together with the Holy Hieromartyr Eustochius, a priest, with Gaius and with the two other young men, Probus and Urban. The Azbyka page commemorates them all together and says of Lollius only that he was one of the young men of Gaius' household.

Eustochius had been a pagan priest, but seeing the steadfastness of the Christian martyrs and the miracles they worked, he turned to Christ. He went to Eudoxius, bishop of Antioch, received Holy Baptism from him and was ordained a presbyter. In the city of Lystra he brought his nephew Gaius and all his household to the way of salvation, among them the young men Probus, Lollius and Urban.

The emperor's soldiers seized Eustochius and brought him to trial, but torments did not shake his faith. He was sent to Ancyra in Galatia, to the governor Agrippinus, and was accompanied by the newly baptized Gaius and his family. All of them, women and infants not excepted, were put to cruel tortures, but they did not renounce Christ, and their heads were cut off.

They are commemorated on 6 July, in the new style.