Macedonius, Theodulus and Tatian

The Holy Martyrs Macedonius, Theodulus and Tatian lived in the time of the emperor Julian the Apostate (360 to 363) and suffered in the city of Myropolis in Phrygia, according to tradition in the year 362. When Amachius, governor of Phrygia, ordered the pagan temple of Myropolis to be cleaned and the statues of the gods in it tended, these three holy soldiers of Christ entered the temple secretly by night and smashed the idols.

So that other innocent Christians would not be persecuted unjustly, they came forward to the governor themselves and boldly confessed that they had overturned the idols. Amachius tried to force them to sacrifice to the gods, but the saints remained unshaken in their confession of Christ and were burned alive on a red-⁠hot gridiron.

They are commemorated on 12 September (new style).