Seleucus of Galatia

Holy Martyr Seleucus of Galatia suffered in the third century, in Galatia, and after many torments was thrown to wild beasts, together with his wife.

He is commemorated with the martyrs Stratonicus, Cronides, Leontius and Serapion, who suffered for the Christian faith in the same century. Stratonicus was from Nicomedia in Bithynia, and Cronides, Leontius and Serapion from Egypt. After cruel torments they were put to death savagely: Cronides, Leontius and Serapion had their hands and feet bound and were thrown into the sea, and the waves cast their bodies on the shore, where the Christians buried them. Stratonicus was, by order of the governor of Bithynia, tied after torments to two bent tree trunks, and his body was torn in two (his memory is also on 9 September).

Saint Seleucus is commemorated on 26 September, in the new style, together with the others.