Sergius of Cappadocia

Saint Sergius was a monk of Cappadocia, martyred in the persecution of Diocletian, in the year 304. Before that he had been a magistrate, then became a hermit. According to the Serbian synaxarion, he was put to the sword at Caesarea of Cappadocia, after torments for faith in Jesus Christ. The sources do not agree on the day: one says 24 February, the Serbian one 2 January by the old calendar, which is 15 January by the new.

Some lists of saints say that his relics were brought to the Spanish town of Úbeda, but this is a mistake. Primus Cabilonensis, in his Topography (around 1450), says that the relics of Sergius were moved to Baetulo, today Badalona, near Barcelona, but there is no evidence for this. The Latin name of the town was confused with the Latin Betulla, today Úbeda in Andalusia, and various sources, mostly modern, say that the relics are in the Andalusian town. In fact there are no relics either at Úbeda or at Badalona.

The sixth-⁠century former church of Saint Sergios, an isolated, abandoned cave church near Göreme, was dedicated to a different Sergios, a soldier and martyr of Rusafa.