Pevsip

Holy Martyr Speusippus (Pevsip) was the first of three twin brothers, born at one birth, who suffered for Christ in Gaul, in the year 161, in the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. His brothers are Eleusippus (Elasip) and Meleusippus (Mesip), and their grandmother, Saint Neonila, died a martyr with them.

The Greek Synaxarion counts them as Cappadocians, trained to tame young horses, whom their Christian grandmother brought to the truth of Christ. According to the Life kept by the Romanian Church, the brothers were from Lingonia (present-⁠day Langres). Before baptism, Pevsip had a vision in which he saw himself received at his grandmother's breast, drinking plentiful milk, while she urged him to drink more; the vision foretold his turning to God. Baptized by Saint Benignus, he smashed the idols with his brothers. When the judges ordered their tongues cut out, Pevsip answered that if their bodily tongues were cut off, with their inward tongues they would tell the glories of God, and that their cruelty would never separate them from faith in Christ.

The three brothers were stretched on a beam and then thrown into the fire, but remained unharmed. They died in prayer, looking at the hosts of angels, and their bodies were buried in the village of Urvat, where a church was built. Pevsip is commemorated on 16 January, according to the new calendar.