Oropsis

Holy Martyr Oropsis suffered together with the priest Irenaeus and with Hor. Irenaeus was distinguished among the priests of the Church of Christ: he not only strengthened the faithful by his teaching and example, but cast his spiritual nets among unbelievers too, bringing many of them into the ark of salvation, that is, the Church. For this he was seized and cruelly tortured.

Hor and Oropsis had the courage to rebuke the prefect sharply as he watched the tortures, and they met the same fate: they were tortured together with the priest, and then the three were thrown into the fire. Suddenly a violent rain put out the fire, and the three martyrs came out untouched from the furnace. The prefect, panicking, ordered them beheaded. They are commemorated on 22 August, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). The account makes clear that Oropsis was a man.