Pachomius

Saint Pachomius died a martyr, drowned by his persecutors in a river. He is commemorated on 13 January (new style) in the Greek synaxarion, together with Saint Papyrinus, who suffered in the same way.

A verse of the synaxarion says that Papyrinus met the same end as Pachomius, cast into the water. No details of their lives are known, nor the place or time of their martyrdom. He should not be confused with Venerable Pachomius the Great, who founded common monastic life in Egypt.