Lucian of Dyrrhachium

Holy Martyr Lucian of Dyrrhachium was one of seven Italian martyrs, Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompey, Hesychius, Papias, Saturninus and Germanus, who suffered for Christ in the time of the emperor Trajan in the city of Dyrrhachium on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. The Azbyka page commemorates them together and says nothing separate about Lucian.

They were present at the torments of Bishop Astius, whom the Romans crucified, and openly praised the courage and firmness of this confessor. For this they were themselves seized and, as confessors of Christ, drowned in the sea. The waves carried their bodies to the shore, and Christians hid them in the sand. After ninety years the martyrs appeared to the bishop of Alexandria and commanded him to bury their bodies and raise a church over them.

They are commemorated on 20 July, in the new style.