Onam

Saint Onam was an ascetic who received martyrdom in the year 343 in Persia, stoned to death beside Saints Isaac, John and Savorius, by order of the king of the Persians. The Church commemorates him on 20 November (new style, the Greek calendar).

On the same day Papias and another Isaac are also commemorated, who were beheaded. A verse says that the servants of the stones killed Isaac with stones, together with John and Savorius. In the Parisian codices 1578 and 1624 the first of them are called bishops. The source says no more about the life of Onam.