Marcellus

Holy Hierarch Marcellus was bishop of Soli in Cyprus and died a martyr by beheading. He is commemorated on 25 February (new style).

The chronicler Kyprianos writes: Marcellus, another bishop of Soli, born and raised in Cyprus, a martyr, commemorated on 25 February. The Synaxarion of Constantinople calls him bishop of Apamea in Cyprus, but there is no Apamea in Cyprus; he is thought to be Marcellus of Soli (ancient Aepeia), or perhaps there is a confusion with Marcellus of Apamea in Syria (14 August). A verse of the synaxarion speaks of the warm drops of blood that flowed from his neck, as an offering to God. In the sixteenth century Étienne de Lusignan also mentions him as bishop of Soli, without any other date.