Olympius of Rome

Holy Martyr Olympius of Rome is one of the twenty martyrs who suffered together with the Holy Maiden Chrysia, the Holy Hieromartyr Hippolytus and the Holy Martyrs Censorinus and Sabinus, in the third century.

Saint Censorinus was the first dignitary in the time of the Roman emperor Claudius II (268-270). On a denunciation he was taken and imprisoned for faith in Christ. In the prison, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he raised a dead man, and after this miracle twenty soldiers, guards of the prison, believed in Christ and were beheaded together with Saint Censorinus. At that time the maiden Chrysia was brought to interrogation, who confessed herself a Christian manfully and was subjected to torments. After fierce torture she was drowned in the sea. Saint Sabinus was struck with a heavy hammer, then hung on a tree and his body burned with fire; in the torments the saint gave his holy soul to the Lord.

With Saint Chrysia suffered Philicles, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Styracinus, Menas, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprian, Theodore, Tribunus, the priest Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, the port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, learning of the martyrs' suffering, though aged, appeared at the trial and rebuked the tormentor for his inhumanity, calling him a blood-⁠drinker. The judge, enraged, gave the holy bishop to torments. After long tortures he was bound by hands and feet and thrown into the sea.

Their memory is kept on 12 February, in the new style. Lives of theirs were written by Saint Demetrius of Rostov.