Parfagapa

Holy Martyr Parfagapa (also called Parthagapia) is commemorated on 15 September with the martyrs Diomedes, Julian, Philip, Eutychian, Hesychius, Leonides, Eutychius, Philadelphus, Melanippus and Theodore, who are mentioned in the Byzantine verse synaxaria. According to them, Diomedes was pierced with a blade, Julian's head was crushed with a club, Philip was beheaded, Eutychian died on a red-⁠hot grate, Leonides was thrown into the fire, Eutychius was crucified, Melanippus was burned, and Parthagapia and Philadelphus, with a stone tied to his neck, were drowned in the sea.

The Roman Martyrology gives as the place of their witness the city of Pamia in Gaul (now Pamiers, in France). But in the Greek synaxaria each of these saints has a separate couplet, which shows that they cannot be counted as a single group of martyrs.

They are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. Saint Parfagapa is commemorated on 15 September, in the new style.