Magnus of Cyzicus

Holy Martyr Magnus of Cyzicus was one of the nine martyrs of Cyzicus: Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius and Philemon. The Azbyka page says nothing particular about Magnus.

The nine

Cyzicus, in Asia Minor, on the shore of the Dardanelles, was at the end of the third century largely pagan, though Christianity had come there already in the time of the Apostle Paul. The nine came from different places, were of different ages and stations (young like Antipater, aged like Rufus, soldiers, villagers, townsmen, clerics), but were united by the wish to spread the faith. They confessed Christ boldly and exposed paganism; they were tormented several days, then beheaded (about 284-292) and buried near the city.

Their relics

After 324, under Constantine the Great, Christians took the incorrupt bodies from the earth and laid them in a church built in their honour, and healings came from the relics and many pagans were baptized. Under Julian the Apostate the pagans asked for the temples to be restored, and Bishop Eleusius was imprisoned; freed after the emperor's death, he saw the faith again strengthened under the martyrs' protection. In Russia, near Kazan, the hierodeacon Stephen founded a monastery in honour of the nine, with a part of their relics brought from Palestine, in hope of deliverance from the fevers of 1687. Saint Demetrius of Rostov wrote their service and homily.

They are commemorated on 12 May, in the new style.