Pasicrates

Saint Pasicrates, martyr, lived in the third century in Dorostolon in Lower Moesia (today Silistra) and died a martyr by beheading. The Orthodox Church commemorates him on 24 April, together with the martyr Valention (Valentine).

He was a soldier in the service of the prefect Aulosanes. At the time of the persecution of Christians, he and his brother Papian were arrested. The judge urged him to offer sacrifice to the idols. His brother yielded to the torments and offered the sacrifice, but Pasicrates put his hand in the fire and cried out that the body is mortal and burns in fire, while the soul is immortal and does not feel visible torments.

His mother supported him and encouraged him to persevere to the end. In the end he was beheaded, together with the martyr Valention. One Serbian source places this suffering around the year 228, but the date is uncertain.