Papas

Holy Martyr Papas came from the city of Laranda in Lycaonia and endured the most terrible tortures without ceasing for a moment to pray to God. When Galerius launched a fierce persecution of Christians, Papas suffered one of the cruellest martyrdoms. First they struck his jaws with stones until they were broken. Then they hung him upside down and scourged him without mercy; they tore his ribs and burned his wounds with lit torches. The saint bore all this with amazing patience and glorified God to his last breath.

The synaxarion supposes that he is the same saint as the one commemorated on 16 March. The calendar of the Church of Greece (new style) commemorates him on 14 September, together with the martyrs Valerian the child and Theocles.