Pollio

Holy Martyr Pollio was a lector in the city of Cibalae (today Vinkovci in Croatia), in the Roman province of Pannonia, and died a martyr probably in the persecution of the emperor Diocletian.

As a lector he is thought to have been associated with the imperial dynasty. His name is found in the Hieronymian Martyrology and in the Synaxarion of Constantinople. The accounts of him say that he was interrogated by the prefect Probus and refused to renounce the faith; he was burned alive outside the city walls. His commemoration is kept on 27 April. At Vinkovci there is a church of Saints Eusebius and Pollio. He is a saint of the undivided Church.