Serapion of Alexandria

Holy Martyr Serapion of Alexandria was one of the five martyrs who suffered for the Christian faith in the third century: Seleucus, Stratonicus, Cronides, Leontius and Serapion.

Seleucus was from Galatia, Stratonicus from Nicomedia of Bithynia, and Cronides, Leontius and Serapion from Egypt. For the confession of faith in Christ, after cruel torments, the holy martyrs were put to death with cruelty. Cronides, Leontius and Serapion had their hands and feet bound and were thrown into the sea; the waves carried their bodies to dry land, where the Christians buried them. St Seleucus suffered in Galatia, where, after many torments, he was given to the beasts with his wife. St Stratonicus, by order of the governor of Bithynia, was tied, after torments, to two bent tree trunks and his body was torn in two (his memory is also kept on 9 September).

St Serapion is commemorated on 26 September, in the new style.