Memnon of Thrace

Holy Martyr Memnon of Thrace was a centurion and suffered at Philippopolis in Thrace, in the time of Diocletian (284-305), together with Saint Severus and thirty-⁠seven other martyrs, in the year 304.

For his steadfast and fearless confession of Christ, Severus was scraped with iron hooks; then rings heated in the fire were put on his fingers and he was girded with a belt of red-⁠hot iron, and after these torments his head was cut off. When the governor learned that Severus had brought the centurion Memnon to Christ, he ordered that he too be tortured. Memnon was stretched out and three straps of skin were cut from his back. With him suffered thirty-⁠seven other martyrs. All had their hands and feet cut off and were thrown into a burning furnace.

Memnon is commemorated on 2 September, in the new style.