Papias

Saint Papias suffered in the time of Decius (249 to 251) together with Diodorus and Claudian. The Greek synaxarion commemorates all three on 25 October (new style, the Greek calendar).

He came from Attalia in Pamphylia and, like the other two, kept livestock. The three worshipped the one true God, and for this reason the governor of Pamphylia, Publius, arrested them. Since he could not change their minds, he finally had them beheaded. A verse says that the sword cut three heads that shared a single mind.